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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Life is easier lived when lived for others."
"Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?"
"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."
"You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write."
"Play me something that makes me feel;This soul inside me is made of steel.Brain is breathing, but heart's not beatingAnd, babe, I need you to make things real.Walk inside me without silence,Kill the past and change the tense.Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring;Take me places that make more sense."
"I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that."
"I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity."
"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore."
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
"It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people."
"It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States."
"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it."
"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
"With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor."
"We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care."
"You can believe that you are a good and caring person, but if you don't treat others with goodness and care, where is the proof?"
"We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through."
"I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character."
"Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world."
"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
"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...."
"I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing."
"She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums."
"Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed."
"Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality."
"Maintain purity of heart.Trust in the process.Hold steadfast to your belief of self.Never loose sight of your smile."
"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
"I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was."
"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."
"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."
"Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road."
"It was my letting go that gave me a better hold."
"When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite."
"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music."
"Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen."
"The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world."
"The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable."
"We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are."
"And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along."
"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment."
"I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them."
"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
"Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action."
"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
"As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest."
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