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		The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tony Abbott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randall Terry 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Risk Hallberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malorie Blackman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yang Lan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				iO Tillett Wright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Ramirez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vic Morrow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lane Garrison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Xavier Becerra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Florence Welch 
			 
			
				Florence and the Machine  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Eckhart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lamar Alexander