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Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.
John Hillcoat
Seen
Think
Films
Dramatic
Extremity
Unfortunately
Violence
It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.
John Hillcoat
Finance
Great
People
Strong
Difficult
Films
Powerful
Terms
Also
Make
Very
Wanting
Them
There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.
John Hillcoat
Love
Cinema
Discipline
Healthy
Think
Eye
Tricks
About
Genre
Healthy Thing
Candy
Much
Many
Thing
Resist
I am very keen to do a film that's female-led.
John Hillcoat
Am
Very
Keen
Film
I'm actually a humanist, believe it or not, and I believe even when people are corrupted, even when they've gone to the dark side, they are still human beings.
John Hillcoat
People
Dark
Dark Side
Gone
Believe
Side
Corrupted
Still
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Even
Actually
Humanist
I have always thought of films as stories for the world.
John Hillcoat
World
Thought
Films
Always
Stories
Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
John Howard
World
September
Changed
Nobody
Underestimate
How
How Much
Much
Should
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
John Howard
People
Police
Military
Think
Unless
Earth
Weapons
Access
Any
Automatic
Should
Reason
Why
I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.
John Howard
Persistence
Determination
Achieve
Seen
Difficult
Think
Having
Reach
Answers
Issues
Trustworthy
Capacity
I hate guns.
John Howard
Hate
Guns
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
John Howard
Arrogant
Other
Other Countries
Kind
India
Carve
Some
Potentially
Proposition
Share
Countries
Indonesia
Reach
Also
Insulting
Accommodation
Up
China
Region
Japan
View
Strategic
Including
Deeply
Need
In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.
John Howard
Government
Myself
Great
Change
Conservative
Degree
Conservatism
Liberal
Beneficial
Unless
Liberalism
Markets
Favor
Small
Economic
Small Government
Emphasis
Also
Always
Mixture
Which
Estimation
Social
Certain
Should
Means
Certain Degree
Describe
I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
John Howard
Government
Time
Mind
Made
Increase
State
Statement
Running
Running Away
Fact
Had
Contemplate
Major
Fair
Said
Did
Away
It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
John Howard
Country
Stupid
Carry
Could
Beyond
Australian
Any
Asia
Belief
We will decide who comes to our country.
John Howard
Will
Country
Our
Decide
Who
The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
John Howard
Harmony
Promote
Between
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Goal
Australian
Maximum
China
Should
There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.
John Howard
Time
Generation
Prosperity
Political
Will
Enriched
Rulers
Kind
Inside
Some
Take
Put
Come
Because
Up
Being
Children
China
Newly
Might
View
Granted
Who
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
John Howard
Government
Party
States
Consistent
Economic
Economic Policy
Smaller
Smaller Government
Support
Mainstream
Well
Policy
Democrats
Reform
Republican
Republican Party
Taxes
Lower
Lower Taxes
Many
United
United States
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
John Leonard
Future
Amazing
Past
Appropriate
Way
Succeeds
Creating
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
John Leonard
Fall
Tree
Books
Wills
Like
Sort
Permanent
Leaves
October
Maple
Garry
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
John Leonard
Me
You
Rich
More
Because
Different
Credit
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
John Leonard
He
Reader
Without
Achieves
Which
Much
Aspiring
Appetite
Pancake
Feed the troops on victory.
John Monash
Victory
Troops
Feed
They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
John Newcombe
Wrote
Insured
Moustache
Million
I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.
John Newcombe
Life
You
Try
My Life
Calm
Way
Bit
Out
Stay
Stay Calm
Throughout
Because
Got
Learnt
Frightened
Get
Situations
Little
Little Bit
Them
Serious
You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.
John Newcombe
You
School
Year
Back
Drill
Major
Know
Because
Friday
Fit
Um
Left
Squad
After
Afternoon
Which
Regular
Sergeant
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