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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
"I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues."
"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."
"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."
"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
"I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger."
"This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance."
"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."
"Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul."
"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."
"There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life."
"It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match."
"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that."
"I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all."
"Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings."
"Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits."
"I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style."
"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do."
"None of us can accomplish our dreams without the help of others. Is it more important for you to feel superior and self-sufficient than to accomplish your dreams within a community of supporters?"
"I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy."
"With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life."
"The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know."
"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to."
"Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand."
"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise."
"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."
"Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England."
"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."
"It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios."
"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses."
"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet."
"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company."
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
"The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set."
"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
"Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians."
"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns."
"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."
"Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts."
"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."
"I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind."
"Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open."
"Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it."
"Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice."
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