Lionel Murphy Quotes
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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How many saucy airs we meet,From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
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And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.
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At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.
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Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
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Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.
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Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
