- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
- Deserts
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
- Never Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020