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Quotes by Australian Authors
"The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it."
"I was sort of open to do anything, I was free."
"Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments."
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment."
"When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life."
"My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders."
"People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent."
"I've always had an obligation to creation, above all."
"The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams."
"I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?"
"Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia."
"There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well."
"It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way."
"Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future."
"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."
"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
"Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude."
"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact."
"They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing."
"The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know."
"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."
"The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval."
"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."
"I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff."
"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."
"I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times."
"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."
"The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure."
"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."
"I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here."
"We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm."
"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."
"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."
"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."
"I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit."
"I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner."
"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."
"I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise."
"It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything."
"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't."
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
"I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses."
"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time."
"I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence."
"Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age."
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