Richard Flanagan Quotes

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

Richard Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

MoneyPoliticsGovernmentBlackLost

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

Jim Lehrer

EyesDrivingLookBoyKidSee

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Joe Tex

ParentsBornLivingFloridaLived

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

John Cusack

YouGoAlwaysThroughStarUsed

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

Andre Braugher

PeoplePilotAdmireClassYearsWho

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Matt Taibbi

FamilyAirplaneBudgetMissionDebt

Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I've been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that.

Rose Namajunas

AttitudeHistoryDayManLooking

There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

Mike Wallace

GoodPathDepressionYourselfHelp

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

Little Simz

HungryDealJustSignDesperate

I don't use any makeup if I'm not doing work.

Liu Wen

WorkMakeupDoingUseAny

My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.

Jason Clarke

LifeBusinessPeopleResearchSee

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

Dennis Muren

TimeMyselfBeing MyselfSeeingJust

You need, in your closet, clothes that will - that you can use in many different ways. Clothes that make you fell comfortable, clothes that make you feel 'you.'

Diane von Furstenberg

FeelClothesYouComfortableWill

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Richard Flanagan