Tony Abbott Quotes
There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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I love working closely with people.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.
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Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
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We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
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George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.
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I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
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I'm not fashionable.
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There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.
