Gail Kelly Quotes
I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I have a very small public.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
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Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I'm very flirtatious, and I enjoy it.
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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
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Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.