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Douglas Hurd Quotes

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: March 8, 1930

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Fresh Act Democratic Well Might

I feel like the best relationships I've been in are those where things were more laid-back.

Best Feel Relationships More Things

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime Concealed Another

What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.

Life Great Me Game Impossible Bad

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

Mother Brother Me Said She Writer

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

Building Airport Need Line Railway

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

Women Business You See Pass Few

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

Great Time I Am Organization Perfect

There is a tendency for the New Gods to work best as guest stars.

Work Stars Best New Guest Gods

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

Beginning Think Short Talking You

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

Love More Always Anything Awkward

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

Character People You Kind Actor See

The size of the resource prize has to be large to support the risked capital that has to be put in place. The Arctic is one of the few places left where we believe those opportunities exist.

Support Believe Opportunities Place

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