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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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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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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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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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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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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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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My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.
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I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
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If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
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Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
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After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.
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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.
