Wayne Swan Quotes
In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.
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We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's.
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There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly - it is incredible to other men.
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One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.
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Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
