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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive."
"The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle."
"My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote."
"It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'"
"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."
"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
"Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage."
"I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."
"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech."
"The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album."
"What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire."
"I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press."
"There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties."
"I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old."
"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny."
"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life."
"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."
"There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them."
"Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too."
"We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life."
"You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable."
"To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility."
"The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts."
"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."
"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
"The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did."
"You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself."
"The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses."
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
"Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum."
"I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged."
"Life is easier lived when lived for others."
"Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!"
"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."
"Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?"
"What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises."
"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."
"This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem."
"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."
"But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives."
"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
"I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff."
"I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes."
"We expected to have a good time with Clive Davis 'cause I've always liked him, his shows. I've sort of followed his career a bit 'cause he had a lot of that on PBS over here."
"In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold."
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