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Quotes by Australian Authors
"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."
"He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold."
"I love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies."
"At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot."
"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night."
"It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird."
"Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with."
"I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life."
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
"No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection."
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."
"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."
"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
"People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent."
"Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs."
"Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world."
"The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan."
"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo."
"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
"If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory."
"Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue."
"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.'"
"Life doesn't just happen to you, youreceive everything in your life based on what you've given."
"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
"We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage."
"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."
"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."
"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
"I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."
"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people."
"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."
"Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life."
"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
"Pride is the luxury of the strong"."
"I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life."
"Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances."
"Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off."
"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration."
"We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time."
"Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey."
"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."
"The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject."
"One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate."
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