John Key Quotes
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I started out doing musicals.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game.
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'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.
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Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.
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Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
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If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
