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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think."
"Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again."
"Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat."
"I want to exude strength and intelligence."
"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."
"Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff."
"I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that."
"Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different."
"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do."
"I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning."
"I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive."
"On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this."
"So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression."
"Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face."
"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."
"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
"Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine."
"Love and be loved. Settle for no less. Ask for no more."
"I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me."
"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."
"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."
"Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign."
"I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team."
"I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world."
"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."
"You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love."
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
"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."
"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
"Systems and processes will always surpass motivation."
"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."
"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction."
"There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it."
"Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart."
"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention."
"You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key."
"I love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies."
"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night."
"The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market."
"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
"I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life."
"Her thought encased in a cocoon of desire. She allows the streams of sunlight to warm the core of her being while she waits for metamorphous."
"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."
"I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler."
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