Rachel Griffiths Quotes
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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People like to call themselves fans of fighting and fans of the sport, but if you're a fan of fighting, how can you not like watching Demetrious Johnson? He's the best at it. He's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why wouldn't you enjoy watching that guy perform? He does a phenomenal job every time he's in there.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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His brain ached with the want of knowing.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
