"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Andrew Denton

#Nervous Quotes #Tension Quotes #Persons Quotes

“We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”
“We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.”
“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source : George Perkins Marsh, Stephen C. Trombulak (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, p.186, UPNE
“At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)”
“I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.”
“Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.”
“Anyone who has not rowed in a really close boatrace cannot comprehend the level of pain.”

Source : "True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny".
“Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.”

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