Norman Lindsay Quotes

'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

Norman Lindsay

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• Tobacco

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• I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

  

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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

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• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

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• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

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• I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.

  

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• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

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• It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

  

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• At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.

  

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• It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

  

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• The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.

  

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• It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

  

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• It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.

  

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• I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

  

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• I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

  

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  

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• In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

  

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• As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

  

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• Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

  

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• First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

  

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• When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

  

  Peter Capaldi
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• I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.

  

  Marc Wallice
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• For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!

  

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• Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

  

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• 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

  

  Norman Lindsay
  • Smoking
  • Feathers
  • Tobacco