Ann Wroe Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you're ugly is the one that sticks.
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I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.
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Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life
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When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.
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To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
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THERE IS NO BEATING THESE PEOPLE, though they seem beatable.
