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Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
Hugo Weaving
Money
Films
Spent
More
Lot
Australian
Selling
Board
Them
Across
Need
It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
Hugo Weaving
Great
Me
People
Water
Out
Blow
Image
As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.
Hugo Weaving
Great
Films
Sort
Different
Actor
Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.
Hugo Weaving
Beautiful
Beautiful Thing
Being
Woods
Thing
Night
I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.
Hugo Weaving
Films
Make
Still
Australian
Low-Budget
Large
If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.
Hugo Weaving
Our
About
Talking
Interested
Then
Really
Who
Film
Actually
If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.
Hugo Weaving
Work
Me
Very
Script
Really
Appeals
Keen
I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.
Hugo Weaving
Character
You
Big
Think
Danger
Unable
See
Perform
Becomes
Doing
Being
Then
Should
Your
Viewer
Hard
Actor
Image
I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.
Hugo Weaving
Day
Great
Feeling
Gave
Had
Headaches
Days
Up
Five
Double
Used
Now
Two
Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.
Hugo Weaving
You
Sets
Kind
Constantly
Something
Like
Because
Surreal
Very
Really
Creating
Film
Film Sets
Amusing
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
Hugo Weaving
Reality
Country
Back
Hideous
Dreamed
About
Go
Very
Going
Often
Romantic
Notion
Nigeria
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
Ibrahim Babangida
Life
Work
Today
Quality
People
Political
Country
Situation
Our
Our People
More
Economy
Quality Of Life
Political Economy
Reforming
Improving
Process
Much
Doubts
Communities
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
Ibrahim Babangida
Work
Long
Complete
Empty
Empty Stomach
Bed
Stomach
Goes
Any
Who
Nigeria
Nigerian
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida
Technology
Humanity
Word
Books
Date
Spite
Remains
Written
Written Word
Advances
Most
Till
Still
Form
Enduring
Information
Information Technology
Reason
Strategies
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida
Economic Development
Trend
Approach
Our
Focused
Must
Economic
Development
Global
Modern
Tune
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida
Success
Alone
Leadership
Achievement
Survival
Opportunity
Nation
Luck
Every
Development
Concrete
Prayers
While
Available
Base
Away
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
Opportunities
Mistakes
Past
Correct
Anew
New
Opens
Past Mistakes
Offers
Blunder
Should
Use
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
Leadership
Business
National
Own
Indeed
Those
Visions
Must
Solutions
Styles
Reforming
Us
Aspire
Views
Who
Search
Each
Each One
Bring
Nigeria
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida
Freedom
Me
You
Liberty
Military
Society
Our
Way
Complex
Would
Lay
Put
Mission
Sought
Were
Regime
Ask
Foundations
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida
Sad
Democracy
History
Experience
Nothing
Lasting
Our
Short
Informed
Require
Foundation
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Ibrahim Babangida
Nature
Destination
Distance
Never
Course
Line
Historical
Contraction
Straight
Shortest
Straight Line
Shortest Distance
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
Society
Assumptions
Our
Our Choice
Framework
Ways
Those
Abandoning
Seek
Driven
Had
Supporting
Economy
Institutions
Looked
Policy
Dictated
Reform
Hitherto
Transcending
Either
Choice
Fundamental
Nigeria
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida
Alone
Government
Progress
Other
Collaboration
Reconcile
Relying
Fact
Remain
Could
Merely
Come
Fellow
Him
Himself
His
Provide
Person
Hands
Essentially
Social
Average
Social Progress
Her
Nigerian
Nigerians
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Ibrahim Babangida
Freedom
Democracy
Natural
Challenge
Free
Market
Appropriate
Project
Saw
Emergence
Direction
Restructure
Free Market
Environment
New
Economy
Cultivation
Modern
Order
Social
Social Order
Nigerian
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
History
World
Country
Other
Our
Lay
Struggling
Advanced
Practicing
Any
Any Other Country
The History Of
Either
Which
Foundation
The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
Ibrahim Babangida
Democracy
Problems
Our
Indeed
Relief
Thrown
Development
Return
Land
Bolder
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