Quotes By The Day

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Yahoo Serious (born Greg Pead)
(7/27/1953 - Age 55)
Australian Director

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
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In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
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We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

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Beatrix Potter

(7/28/1866-12/22/1943)

English Author (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

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Booth Tarkington
(7/29/1869 - 5/19/1946)
American Novelist and Dramatist

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
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The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

[Snowden]

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

How true!

This man was something of a philosopher as well as a delightful author.

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Emily Bronte

(7/30/1818-12/19/1848)

English Novelist

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
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Terror made me cruel.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

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Milton Friedman

(7/31/1912 - Age 96 )

US Economist

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.