Tony Abbott Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.
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I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistant. That happened in a very strange way. My father had a meeting with Halston. And my father said to me, 'Join me. I want you to meet this amazing American designer.' And I happened to just tag along, and Halston offered me a job.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
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I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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I love being on tour; I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.
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To come home and have three songs working on radio, I can't tell you how happy I am. It is amazing.
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Basbanes makes you love books.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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When I started making my tracks in the style that people call tropical house, I didn't do it on purpose to make it sound tropical. I made whatever I felt sounded good. I just wanted to make my own thing, and then suddenly people started calling it tropical ... I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably a good name for it.'
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!