Helen Garner Quotes

I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.

Helen Garner

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If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

Jessie J

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'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

Jeremy Irvine

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What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

Jenny McCarthy

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There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

Angus Deaton

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A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Stephen Hawking

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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Stephen Ambrose

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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Steve Winwood

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It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

Dennis Hastert

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Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Christopher Hitchens

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We eat the same breakfast every day. We are like robots. I always do two eggs over easy with turkey bacon - we enjoy the taste of it more than pork - and avocado. I carve it all up into a bowl so it's like a slop, and I load it with salt and pepper and Cholula.

Chrissy Teigen

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I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Brene Brown

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