Dawson Trotman Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
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I really want my music to go mainstream.
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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
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Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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World vision is getting on your heart what has always been on God's heart.
