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Quotes by Australian Authors
"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."
"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."
"The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart."
"My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead."
"Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years."
"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."
"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
"Jiu Jitsu forges friendships in a way I've never known. Being involved in an art as intimate as this, where bodily connection is a must, the common cultural boundaries of personal space are broken. You will never see more hugs, high fives, and physical expressions of love than on the mats. Ultimately, this proves to be one of the most fulfilling aspects of our pursuit of mastery. Along the way, we learn to love others as we love ourselves."
"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."
"In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire."
"I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack."
"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."
"You cannot "catch" anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it."
"I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded."
"I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science."
"First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that."
"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."
"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."
"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
"When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me."
"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."
"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."
"For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way."
"Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere."
"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."
"It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual."
"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
"My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids."
"Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say."
"Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys."
"So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone."
"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."
"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
"Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine."
"People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world."
"An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany."
"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."
"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."
"You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love."
"There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it."
"I'd heard you were dead."I heard you wear a red lace corset, I said matter-of-factly. "But I don't believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about."
"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."
"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
"In the modern world we are surrounded by so much abundance that we cannot see it."
"I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time."
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