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Thirty Quotes by Melina Marchetta
- My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
- My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where…
- It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what…
- They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new…
More Thirty Quotes
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how… — Amy Adams
- Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only… — Niels Bohr
- The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in… — Chris Brown
- Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. — Rita Mae Brown
- It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette. — Betty Buckley
- When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I… — Gisele Bundchen
- I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I… — William S. Burroughs
- I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the… — Smedley Butler
- If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one… — John Cage
- It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet… — Donald Cargill
- A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali