Jay Weatherill Quotes
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Actor's life is very long.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.
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Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.
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The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
