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Patrick White Quotes

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

Patrick White

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: australian
Birth: May 28, 1912 - September 30, 1990

Topics

Mountains School Blue Result House

Let's face it: dancing isn't one of my strong points.

Jim Nabors

Face Strong Dancing Points

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

Jerry Greenfield

Business Face Think Problem You Now

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

Andrea Hirata

Stupidity Writing Fighting Risk

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

Jeffrey Kluger

Wrong Kind Special Horror Up Seem

We all should be proud of the United States. For those of us that came from the Dominican, we've been able to come here, work, make money and become somebody in our lives. We've gotten a huge opportunity from the U.S.

Robinson Cano

Work Opportunity Money Proud Become

Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.

Jojo Moyes

Think Better Feel You Hard Out

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

Diane Cilento

Work Time You Hard Always Up

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Desiderius Erasmus

God Man Wolf Either

There's a funny thing that, in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I'm quite comfortable with that as a director. I don't mind that.

Colm McCarthy

Funny Mind Now Comfortable Director

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

Pete Rose

Money Two Playing Making Should

I want lot of luck and want all my films to be really super hits. I don't want to hear that the film is not good, but you did a good job. I am tired of hearing that. I am hoping for little luck so that my films do really well.

Shahid Kapoor

Good Job I Am Tired Luck You

I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn't think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me.

Noah Wyle

Me Gun Think Remember Back Run