Phillip Noyce | "There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."

"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."

Phillip Noyce, Australian Director

School, Eyes

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"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."

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"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."

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"Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us."

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"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."

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"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."

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"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."

School

"Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature."

History

"I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence."

People

"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."

Nation

"You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank."

Work

"Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat."

Film

"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them."

Nature

"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"

Movies

"Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions."

Friendship

"After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude."

Attitude

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Author Name

Personal Development

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

Author Name

Personal Development

Author Name

Personal Development

"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."

Author Name

Personal Development

"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."

School

"Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature."

History

"I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence."

People

"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."

Nation

"You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank."

Work

"Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat."

Film

"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them."

Nature

"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"

Movies

"Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions."

Friendship

"After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude."

Attitude