Natalie Imbruglia Quotes
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Time stays, we go.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.
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Our almost-instinct almost true:What will survive of us is love.
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Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
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I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
