"You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body."
-Geoffrey Rush
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"I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.“
-Geoffrey Rush
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"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically."
-Geoffrey Rush
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"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.'"
-Geoffrey Rush
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"I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
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"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."
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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
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