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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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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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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Our choices determine our destiny
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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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Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.
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We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible, and then you share that progress after the fact, and not before the fact. Profit sharing would resolve the conflict between management apprehensions and worker expectations on the basis of solid economic facts as they materialize rather than on the basis of speculation as to what the future might hold.
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Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.
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You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.
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You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.
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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.
