Christopher Pyne Quotes
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.
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I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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We often think the only way to create happiness is to try to control the outer circumstances of our lives, to try to fix what seems wrong or to get rid of everything that bothers us. But the real problem lies in our reaction to those circumstances. What we have to change is the mind and the way it experiences reality.
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If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria's Secret Angel; for me, that's always been a goal.
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My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
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Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.
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Whether you win a grand final by one goal or six goals, a win is a win is a win.
