Geraldine Brooks Quotes

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

Geraldine Brooks

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We've seen, in Washington, both sides say they don't want to give up much of anything.

John Dickerson

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I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Mel Gibson

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But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.

John L. Lewis

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There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun.

Summer Glau

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I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Jude Law

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I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

Jay-Z

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I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

Dominique Moceanu

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There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

Douglas Leone

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When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Christine Pelosi

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I would love to act. I get to do it in three and a half minutes in a video on a three-day shoot, which is fun.

Brendon Urie

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If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

Anthony Bourdain

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I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

Woody Harrelson

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