Colleen McCullough Quotes
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
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The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.
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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
