Tony Abbott Quotes
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
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Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
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Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.
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I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.
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I don't bring religion into the square.
