Ian Chappell Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.
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There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
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Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
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The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.
