Colleen McCullough Quotes
Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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In the first three months, half of my salary went for a pigeonhole in the Siberian end of town.
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The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
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Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention.
