Basil W. Maturin Quotes
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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I'd love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman.
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Everything ends badly, otherwise it would not end.
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
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I'm not Tom Cruise. I don't have to look that good. I'm always going to have a problem because I'm thought of as someone edgy, but I'm not. I'm a cupcake.
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As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.
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One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
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I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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Heal the world, make it a better place.
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Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
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To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.
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No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
