Paul Keating Quotes
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
-
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
-
If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
-
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
-
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
-
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
-
I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
-
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
-
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
-
It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
-
I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
-
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
-
I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
-
I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
-
Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
-
I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
-
I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.
-
I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
-
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
-
I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'
-
I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.
-
More modern poetry is written than read.
-
Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.
-
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
