I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.


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HUGH GRANT
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR
It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
HUGH HUDSON
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE
Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our childr...
HUGH MACKAY
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ...
HUGH MACKAY
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
HUGH MACKAY
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem ...
HUGH MACKAY
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaning...
HUGH MACKAY
It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to ...
HUGH MACKAY
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for sayin...
HUGH MACKAY
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely con...
HUGH MACKAY
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people pre...
HUGH MACKAY
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio ser...
HUGH MACKAY
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal litera...
HUGH MACKAY
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familia...
HUGH MACKAY
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people...
HUGH MACKAY
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
HUGH MACKAY
The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour ...
HUGH MACKAY
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that c...
HUGH MACKAY
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to em...
HUGH MACKAY
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all ava...
HUGH MACKAY
No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
HUGH MACKAY
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was some...
HUGH MACKAY
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
HUGH MACKAY
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling ...
HUGH MACKAY
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on ...
HUGH MACKAY
When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's ...
HUGH JACKMAN
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be...
HUGH LAURIE
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that....
HUGH JACKMAN
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE
I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can so...
HUGH JACKMAN
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE
Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I w...
HUGH PRATHER
I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that h...
HUGH SHELTON