Tony Abbott Quotes
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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I owe everything to France.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
