Kate Grenville Quotes
Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.Kate Grenville
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
Fiona Apple -
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
Kangana Ranaut -
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
Harold Pinter -
I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
Sadie Jones
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
Ike Skelton -
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross -
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin -
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
Rand Paul -
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
Ted Turner -
My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
Eddi Reader -
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
Kari Matchett -
I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
Kate Winslet -
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
Rachel Stevens
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My father is a genuinely nice guy and very generous to anybody and everybody. He likes to live life kingsize, and he doesn't know any other way, and I love that about him.
Arjun Kapoor -
I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.
Kesha -
Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.
Lauren Myracle -
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
James Joyce -
There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.
Alain Macklovitch -
Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
Kate Grenville