Christopher Pyne Quotes
He's being held in residential surveillance, which we would normally describe as home detention ... my understanding is it's in Beijing.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?
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I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
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Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.
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At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.
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I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.
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I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.
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If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.
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You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.
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When I'm treating myself, it's a full-on burrito, all loaded up!
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He's being held in residential surveillance, which we would normally describe as home detention ... my understanding is it's in Beijing.
