Adam Hills Quotes
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
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A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
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To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.
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A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
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I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
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Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life - for the changes, not only in my life, but my family's. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through.
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The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone
