Phoebe Tonkin Quotes
No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.
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I think anytime with your mom, whether she's famous or not, you're watching what she's doing when you're growing up. She also taught me the basics: Make sure you use a good moisturizing shampoo and conditioner, and then use a detangler to comb through your hair. And don't overdo the heat styling.
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
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Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.
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No one knows who I am in Australia. They don't even know I am Australian, because 'The Secret Circle' is on in Australia, and I'm sure everyone's like, 'Oh, she's American. She's from, like, North Carolina.' Like, nobody knows me in Australia, I'm just telling you.
