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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My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
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The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
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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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I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.