Paul Keating Quotes

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

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• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

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• Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

  

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• In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

  

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• With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

  

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• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

  Ed Harris
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• A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

  

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• 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'

  

  M. C. Gainey
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• Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
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• I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

  

  Laura Lippman
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• People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.

  

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• All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
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• Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.

  

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• Reject cynicism. Reject certitude. And don't be a jerk. Be a good guy.

  

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• I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things.

  

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• It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.

  

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• My parents are really honest when they watch something. My nan is brutally honest. She'll tell me, 'Oh, you looked awful in that scene,' and I'm like, 'Well, I was giving birth at the time, so it probably worked with the character, Nan.'

  

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• I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

  

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• I'm trying to keep a good spin on it...But at some point you have to look at a guy like me and ask, 'How effective can I be if I'm not playing on a regular basis?'

  

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• I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

  

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• Alas! that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me! Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene The actors or spectators?

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

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• John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

  

  Paul Keating
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