Rolf Harris Quotes
If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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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.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
