Thomas Carlyle Quotes
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
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My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.
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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
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If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
