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The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.


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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