"Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife."

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Alexander Downer

#Thinking Quotes #Wife Quotes #Prime Quotes

“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)”
“I always wanted voice over to be part of my career. Even as a child, I'd watch cartoons and know that someone was doing the voices. When I moved to L.A., my hope was that I'd do on-camera work and voice over. I've ended up doing both, but the voice over side took off in a way that I didn't expect!!”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.”

Source : Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.128, University of Notre Dame Pess
“You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.”
“I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.”
“Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.”
“My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.”
“I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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