Richard Flanagan Quotes

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.

Richard Flanagan

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Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

Jim Jarmusch

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I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing more elegant in winter than dark tights worn with matching knee-length boots and a belted trench coat.

Joan Collins

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It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.

Joel Silver

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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

Stephen J. Field

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There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

Rush Limbaugh

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To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

Michael Keaton

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I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

Dick Dale

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In show business, everyone loves a comeback story.

Chris Connelly

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I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I don't want them to compare me to one or the other - I want people to know me for being Griezmann.

Antoine Griezmann

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Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.

Philip Schultz

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By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

Peter York

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