Miranda Otto Quotes
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I am tone deaf.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.
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I don't feel naked around you anymore.
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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
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There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
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However, if I am confirmed to this position my first priority will be to maintain continuity with the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.
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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
