Richie Benaud Quotes
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.
