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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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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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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I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.
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Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
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It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.
