Quentin Bryce Quotes

We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

Quentin Bryce

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Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a number of years.

Jimmy Smits

New YorkCityGrowing UpPuerto Rico

I admire honesty more than any other trait.

Jerry Reinsdorf

HonestyAdmireMoreThanOtherAny

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

John Banville

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Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

Jenny Zhang

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Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.

Andrea Riseborough

WeekIndustryAlmostAbsolutely

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

Robert Plant

GodGreatPeopleYouRockMore

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Michael Chang

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I'm from Queensbridge. It's the largest housing project in New York. And growing up in Queens, it was different because I wasn't really experienced in traveling to the City. I never really got used to the City.

Metta World Peace

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I guess I got lucky with my sound.

John Scofield

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I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

Ron Atkinson

MomentCoolThinkPanicI Think

I could put everything I got in the bank on my abilities and skill and will, and what I'm capable of doing in the ring.

Deontay Wilder

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