Richard Flanagan Quotes

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

Richard Flanagan

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I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

John Lydon

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I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

Matthew Underwood

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I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Amy Heckerling

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When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

Roger Moore

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However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.

Rudolf Steiner

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There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification.

Jordan Gavaris

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On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

Donna Brazile

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To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.

Brian Jones

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I know that some of the characters I played were trash. But then, I chose to take up those roles, as I enjoyed doing them.

Anupam Kher

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How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

Paula Poundstone

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Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Marilyn vos Savant

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The community - more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

Mark Zuckerberg

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