Jane Rule Quotes
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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I love 'Pac-man', 'Mortal Kombat', and 'Street Fighter'. 'Ryu' is my favourite-ever character - I'd love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played '2K17'.
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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Now, I mentioned yesterday at the town hall - like America’s first President, George Washington, he understood that democracy can only endure when it’s bigger than just one person. So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.
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Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
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Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
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If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you're pretty much done, and then you're useless.
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You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
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Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
