Sia (Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) Quotes
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I hate the domestic life.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
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One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.
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The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
