"We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial."

-- George Brandis

#Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes #Sophisticated Quotes

“My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.”
“If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.”
“all I want to do is pull her against me and hold her until we both die.”
“I think it does because if you think of where "The Daily Show" was when I inherited it from Jon Stewart, I was in a space where, essentially, everything seemed like it was on track, you know, in terms of - from a progressive point of view, you know, you're looking at Republicans who, yes, were in control of many facets of government.”
“It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.”
“Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that will satisfy all six billion humans. Each of us must find our ideal way to attune with deity.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.26, Llewellyn Worldwide
“Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage
“I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.”

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