Vance Palmer Quotes
Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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If anybody was to look towards a big source of demand in future, it would be hard for them to miss India.
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I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
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I have repeatedly emphasized that the Communists in North Korea appear to have set 1975 as the year of aggression against the South.
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In more than thirty years of conducting workshops, no one has ever said to me, 'Warren, I want a divorce – my partner understands me.'
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It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
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Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.
