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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I like how small you can be on TV.
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Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
