Norman Reilly Raine Quotes
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
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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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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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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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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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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 hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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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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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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I genuinely do think that skin does have a lot to do with genetics. I was blessed. You should see my mom and grandma - it's unfair!
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I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.
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Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.
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Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
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I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
