Colleen McCullough Quotes
They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.
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After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
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I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
