Helen Garner Quotes

I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.

Helen Garner

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LifeFutureMeThinkMy LifeYou

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Jimmy Fallon

FootballThank YouAppreciateYou

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

Andy Behrman

BrokenGuiltNobodyNeverSeeBone

I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.

John Hunter

GoodPeopleGood PeoplePlayMore

It doesn't always work out, but if I visualize myself getting what I want, it can happen.

Stella Maxwell

WorkMyselfWantVisualizeOut

Doctors are fantastic, but they err on the side of caution. But you can push yourself. You're not going to die from pain.

Tony McCoy

YourselfPainPushDieYouSide

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Robert Carlyle

LoveImaginationWorldSayAlways

The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

Ruby Dee

WhiteMoreBeenThanKnownShall

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Rudolf Arnheim

StyleArtReflectionCultureSimple

A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.

Rudolf Steiner

LifeCommunityMirrorReflection

George Bush didn't campaign on, 'If you elect me, I'm going to be a great president to confront terrorism and launch a war in the Middle East' because nobody was thinking about it in the year 2000. But it became the defining issue of his presidency.

Mike Huckabee

GreatWarMeThinkingYearYou

If I'm called on, I want to be ready and efficient.

Michy Batshuayi

ReadyWantEfficient

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Lord Byron

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