Tony Abbott Quotes
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
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I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.
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The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
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If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
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So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
