Colleen McCullough Quotes
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)
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There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
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Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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Truly God was good, to make man so blind.
