David Malouf Quotes
I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives
Quotes to Explore
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.'
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives
