Lionel Murphy Quotes

We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.

Lionel Murphy

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I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Joey Adams

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I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

John Key

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I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

Jeff Buckley

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I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

John Philpot Curran

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

Steven Brust

GamePlayingRatherThanRunning

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Robert Baden-Powell

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It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.

Mike D

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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Judith Jamison

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Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Christopher Heyerdahl

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I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

Christine Baranski

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