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Alexander Downer Quotes

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Alexander Downer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: australian
Birth: September 9, 1951

Topics

Life Respect Hate My Own Own Spoil

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

You I Can Take Going Show Sure

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

Jessica Savitch

Girl Job College Dodge Most

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

Woman Me You Seeing Wrong Kind

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

Music Musicians Dignity Person Jazz

I am not a journalist or an academic.

I Am Academic Journalist Am

Growing up, we had 30, 40, 50 people coming through the house some Thanksgivings. Sometimes there was a kids' table; other times, the plate was just sitting on your lap. You get in where you fit in at that house.

Michael Strahan

People Growing Up You House Table

One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.

Women History People Me Poor Mean

I'm tired of hearing about this 'well-regulated militia' that is so necessary for American freedom.

Freedom Tired American Hearing About

In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.

Writing Loved Doing New Quit Pay

People understand about family; people understand about being in situations where you have to be brave. People get falling in love.

Deborah Mailman

Family Love People Brave You Get

The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

Hate People Me Page Want Turn

There's a guy in London named Ben Cohen who is doing great things. In a way, we need people like Ben - we need straight guys to come out and say, 'What're you worried about? Get over yourself.' That's what we need! Because no one's listening to us - certainly, no one is listening to me.

Great Yourself People Me Listening

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