Brett Lee Quotes

As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

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• Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • School
  • Science

• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Change
  • Satisfied
  • Betray

• In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Writing
  • Tragedy
  • Three

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Political
  • Care
  • Judge

• The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

  

  Jack Horner
  • See
  • Birds
  • Colorful

• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Job
  • Know
  • Nervous

• In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Used
  • Impression
  • Brown

• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Family
  • Home
  • Congress

• I'm not interested in disposable music.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Music
  • Not Interested

• I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Guy
  • Respect
  • Down

• I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Party

• One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Work
  • Music
  • Passion

• I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Death

• I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Creativity
  • Quiet
  • Isolation

• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • You
  • Look

• I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Life
  • Live
  • Feels

• 'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Brave
  • Role

• When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Change
  • Faces
  • Wear

• As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

  

  Brett Lee
  • Skin
  • Test
  • Cricketer