Colleen McCullough Quotes
The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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Decision, the moment of saying yes, is prompted by something deeper; recognition. I recognise you; I know you again, from a dream or another life, or perhaps even from a chance sighting in a café, years ago.
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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
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If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
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"You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I."
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The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
