John Newcombe Quotes
I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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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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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these kinds of people, the older you get, the more you appreciate it.
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Yoga only works one way.
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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
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I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.
