George Brandis Quotes
Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
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In the chapters on the biology of trauma we saw how trauma and abandonment disconnect people from their body as a source of pleasure and comfort, or even as a part of themselves that needs care and nurturance. When we cannot rely on our body to signal safety or warning and instead feel chronically overwhelmed by physical stirrings, we lose the capacity to feel at home in our own skin and, by extension, in the world. As long as their map of the world is based on trauma, abuse, and neglect, people are likely to seek shortcuts to oblivion. Anticipating rejection, ridicule, and deprivation, they are reluctant to try out new options, certain that these will lead to failure. This lack of experimentation traps people in a matrix of fear, isolation, and scarcity where it is impossible to welcome the very experiences that might change their basic worldview.
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Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.
