#lia

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

#compose #determine #differences #doors #families

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#also #bob #bob dylan #brilliant #cool

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#bush #called #cell #city #expression

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#been #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#because #came #course #go #going

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#any #aspect #australian #disappoint #discussion

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#entertainers #events #great #i #i think

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#entrenched #long #tradition

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#fiercely #forces #hard #live #need

All objects lose by too familiar a view. ↗