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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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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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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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
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My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
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I love being in Hyderabad, as I never get bored like I do in Mumbai.
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It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.
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Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.
