Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.
With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.
Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and you can go through the history of children's television, and I show certain things, the students' jaws just drop. You're never going to hit the hammer quite as hard in print.
I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional.
I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.
I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.
There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
When you learn to read you will be born again. . . and you will never be quite so alone again.
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [. . . ] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.
I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved. " "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?
That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.
It seems quite impossible to walk in America.
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough.
You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.