Teresa Palmer Quotes
If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
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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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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
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My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.
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I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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Adolf is a swine. He will give us all away. He only associates with reactionaries now. His old friends aren't good enough for him. Getting matey with the East Prussian generals. They're his cronies now. Adolf is turning into a gentleman. He's got himself a tail-coat now. Adolf knows exactly what I want. I've told him often enough. Not a second edition of the old imperial army. Are we revolutionaries or aren't we? Allons, enfants de la patrie! If we are, then something new must arise out of our élan, like the mass armies of the French Revolution. If we're not, then we'll go to the dogs. We've got to produce something new, don't you see? A new discipline. A new principle of organization. The generals are a lot of old fogeys. They never had a new idea.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
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If you're being true to who you are, and the things you believe in, that is so attractive to me.
