"All our best heroes are losers"

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Source : Richard Glover (2011). “In Bed with Jocasta”, p.27, HarperCollins Australia

Richard Glover

#Wisdom Quotes #Hero Quotes #Australia Quotes

“I know you can be funny without being filthy.”

Source : "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview With Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.
“It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.”
“I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.”
“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.”
“I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.”
“When a man declares: "I am sure of my wife," it means he is sure of his wife. But when a woman declares: "I am sure of my husband," it means that she is sure of herself.”
“You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.”
“I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.”

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