Julia Gillard In fragile and conflict-affected states, education can insulate children from chaos and insecurity and better prepare them to bring about future stability. – Julia Gillard Bring Quotes Chaos Quotes Children Quotes Conflictaffected Quotes Education Quotes Fragile Quotes Future Quotes Insecurity Quotes Insulate Quotes Prepare Quotes Stability Quotes I first felt the addictive power of ‘Game of Thrones’ when I was prime minister, living in a world where power was also pursued relentlessly, albeit far less colourfully. Certainly, the characters of my world were nowhere near as good looking or exotically dressed. My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelaide.
Michael Connelly I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it’s two books a year, but most often it’s one. – Michael Connelly
Stephen Fincher It’s our government; just leave us alone and… let the free market create the jobs. – Stephen Fincher
Sharon Olds The decision for me was whether to have ‘The Father’ be a book that told a story – from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter – without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. – Sharon Olds
Sia There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio. – Sia
Caitlin Moran We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it’s not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there’s a right or wrong. – Caitlin Moran
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