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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki."
"Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film."
"He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold."
"We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent."
"Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God."
"After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was."
"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
"We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting."
"In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks."
"It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia."
"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."
"Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office."
"It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine.If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake.But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy."
"The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia."
"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
"I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction."
"The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we'd like to be. And that sucks. But when you're confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up."
"I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way."
"It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing."
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
"We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy."
"Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world."
"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."
"I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts."
"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
"Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation."
"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."
"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important."
"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."
"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."
"I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that."
"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."
"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
"Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard."
"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."
"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
"LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."
"I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it."
"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."
"I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life."
"I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level."
"Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!"
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