Richard Flanagan Quotes

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

Richard Flanagan

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That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have obligations. Get the writing done first, then be the person I want to be in other ways after that.

John Edgar Wideman

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I was a big Jay Leno fan, so I was sorry to see him go. But my number one person that I watch, she's not late night, but in terms of the comedian genre, is Ellen DeGeneres - love her.

Megyn Kelly

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To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Simon Callow

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You play for a club like Real Madrid, the people outside start talking.

Royston Drenthe

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I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Mike Nichols

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My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

Chuck Berry

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

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If I tell you there's cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.

Tyronn Lue

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I learned from Roger Rabbit that if you make people laugh, they'll do anything for you - which is almost true.

Tiffany Haddish

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I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables.

Tim Tebow

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What's been unique about our acquisition is that Google is leaving us independent. That actually means that the company is structured the same... We really are a company within a company.

Noam Bardin

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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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