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More Quotes
Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right.
- Almost Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
- Nov 07, 2020
The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's got more cosmopolitan, and it's lost its uniqueness, but Australia is still a great place.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think baking's far easier than cooking, and because of that, it's more approachable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that has more buttercream than it does cake is going to be a no-no for me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans.
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.
- Nov 07, 2020