Colleen McCullough Quotes
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I'm only going to get better and better. Not going to get worse.
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.
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Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
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I mean not to boast; I would not excite envy, but manly emulation. We have all one common cause; let it, therefore, be our only contest, who shall most contribute to the security of the liberties of America. And may the same kind Providence which has watched over this country from her infant state still enable us to defeat our enemies!
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