Georgina Haig Quotes

Being Australian, I'm probably more used to sunshine and the beach. I've never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time.

Georgina Haig

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• Australian

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• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.

  

  Ed Harris
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• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
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• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• '…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?

  

  Anthony Kennedy
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• I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

  

  Charles L. Evans
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• The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

  

  Kevin Hart
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• I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
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• Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.

  

  Kim Fields
  • People
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• A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

  

  Marvin Ammori
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• We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
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• Houston, we've had a problem.

  

  Jim Lovell

• Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

  

  David Ogilvy
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• We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

  

  Andy Rooney
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• We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

  

  Allen Iverson
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• India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

  

  Hu Shih
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• In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.

  

  Arthur Bryant
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• I am ashamed to be Australian in these times.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • Times
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• Being Australian, I'm probably more used to sunshine and the beach. I've never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time.

  

  Georgina Haig
  • Sunshine
  • Skiing
  • Australian