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I love to go out and have fun, but I'm not all about partying, so that's a perfect place for me to get away from tennis with my friends. I think Canberra is the best place in the world.
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.
I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago. — © Cody Fern
I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Film has its own innate poetry.
If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.
I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.
I actually think that wrestling is much harder than MMA, to be honest.
Hudson just melts my heart. When I come home, he says, 'Daddy, daddy,' and it just turns my day around.
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.
You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress. — © Ben Mendelsohn
You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.
My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'
I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.
BMX is never over until the finish line, and I am always trying to challenge myself for that world stage.
The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
If God used evolution, God came from an ape.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! There's this brilliant documentary called 'Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?' I think it's important for people to be educated about bees - they pollinate almost all the food we eat. They are amazing!
To be able to take the next generation, my daughters and my granddaughters, to better understand and respect the people in the Outback and experience the wonders of our country, would definitely be one of my favourite duties.
Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.
I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
My mother's Maori, and my father's Australian. I take my strength from both my ancestors, and I'm really privileged.
The hero of the 'Peanuts' is Charlie Brown. I play the dog that sleeps on the top of his dog box who's a philosopher. I'm drawn to that. So I'm drawn to Barbossa as I'm drawn to Einstein, because they are outsiders, and I suppose, as a character actor, that's the turf that you're locked into, in a way.
In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
My head is massive. My head is, like, off the charts.
The football field was a place where I could express myself and just be me. Play the game as well as you can and that's what you're judged on. Not the colour of your skin, or your beliefs, or the conversation you have around racism.
I use the Internet a lot - it's a big hobby of mine, just surfing the Internet.
If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming a rarity in Mongolia, where mechanized transport is gradually replacing traditional means.
Once I hit my 30s, I realized I needed to make changes, so I moved to the country to spend time with my horses. — © Asher Keddie
Once I hit my 30s, I realized I needed to make changes, so I moved to the country to spend time with my horses.
If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.
I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.
I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.
For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.
You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.
I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.
The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character. — © Mia Wasikowska
The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.
I never really thought that the 100 would be one of my specialities I guess, but I think that's because of my 200 work - it gives me a good back end and allows me to hold on.
I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.
First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
Obviously the gospel was offensive to a lot of people and it was offensive to me at one point but that caused me to have a change of heart, to come to repentance and realise I was a sinner and needed a saviour.
Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.
We were going for an otherworldly feel, you know a lot of people tell us we look like aliens anyway. I don't know if it's just because there's two of us and we have big eyes and long necks.
Once paparazzi become a reality, then things change because you become more conscious of photos.
Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.
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