Andrew Denton Quotes
Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
