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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that."
"The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula."
"Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'"
"Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks."
"Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?"
"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."
"I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying."
"Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."
"But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation."
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things."
"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
"I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive."
"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it."
"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."
"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
"We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up."
"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."
"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."
"Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it."
"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."
"People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world."
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
"There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras."
"You are my perfect sentiment."
"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
"You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all."
"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
"Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror."
"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 was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled straight white guy who hadn't but a lot of thought into what it might be like to be anything other than a straight white guy. Because when you're a straight white guy, you don't *have* to think about that...."
"But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do."
"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us."
"As far as our relation to the physical world, I doubt there will be much more improvement. Our basic survival needs have been met, and much of our current progress is superfluous or downright troublesome. Most advancement is performed out of comfort rather than necessity. What we are lacking, what the world so desperately needs now, is adjustments of the mind. We need to see the world again with fresh eyes, and come to an understanding of who we are as individuals, and what drives us."
"Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members."
"It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman."
"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
"We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person."
"I use my understanding of jiu jitsu as a road map to learn other activities. I look for the similarities between the two, and use jiu jitsu as an allegory for whatever my new practice may be. I truly believe once you have learned one thing, you have learned all things because you have learned how to learn."
"I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were."
"We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project."
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