David Malouf Quotes
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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Every day is a blessing.
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Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
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When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.
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For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.
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I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.
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I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
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I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.
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Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
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It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.
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What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
