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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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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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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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.
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There's always competitors out there, one way or another.
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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
