Colleen McCullough Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.
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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.
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It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.
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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
