John Hillcoat Quotes
In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Drink beer, smoke dope, and eat pussy until your jaw breaks.
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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
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In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.
