Lionel Murphy Quotes
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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People trash talk me.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
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Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.
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History can never be covered up.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
