Richard Flanagan Quotes

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'

Richard Flanagan

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I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

Jim Starlin

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And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Jesus Christ

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When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

Andre Previn

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I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.

John Varvatos

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If you don't like an ad, why should anybody else?... We're all consumers... That's why I always create commercials for myself first of all. I am the consumer I know best. If I think it's a great commercial, I figure the rest of the people might think so, too. I haven't been wrong so far.

Stan Freberg

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You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

Sue Wicks

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I've got a huge family back in Ireland, and I've made loads of movies in Ireland.

Tom Holland

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The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Michael Moore

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We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Josh Radnor

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You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

Chris Martin

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They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

Peter Mayhew

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I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

Peabo Bryson

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