Richard Flanagan Quotes

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Richard Flanagan

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WorldEndIslandGrandparentsMining

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Joe Cocker

LifeRestThinkAmericanYouDown

I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty.

Andrea Parker

FamilyChildrenGoodnessSignificant

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Robert Mondavi

LifeArtFoodWineYouBack

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Amber Tamblyn

FamilyPeopleFriendsYoungJust

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.

Tom Waits

MeListeningDoneRealJustRecords

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

FatherMotherConstructionProduction

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.

Michael Trucco

LoveCharacterHeroActionTrying

I like the irony in my work.

Miuccia Prada

WorkIronyLike

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

Jon Pertwee

FunnyMeGlassesActorHiddenNever

The natural end of an era, as designers whose houses bear their names grow old and pass away, combined with the arrival of digital cameras and Internet exposure, has created a perfect storm.

Suzy Menkes

StormEndGrowInternetPerfectOld

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

Peter Stone

New YorkRoadNewDoneNowHappen

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Shigeru Yoshida

ProgressBlessingsHarmonyKnowMay

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