Tony Abbott Quotes
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
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I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
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I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.
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My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.
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My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.
