Tony Abbott Quotes
Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I owe everything to France.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.