George Brandis Quotes
As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.
