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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
"Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist."
"You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense."
"Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones."
"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical."
"They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have less trouble with these things. It's part of what makes us better fighters."
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
"I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you."
"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us."
"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."
"I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much."
"The mysteries I desired to learn of heaven and earth and all that is between could only be taught by experiencing you."
"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
"Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning."
"Don't deny your emotions and force yourself to smile when you feel like crying. Cry, but learn to smile through your tears."
"Happiness comes easier when I'm thinking of you."
"Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right."
"I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time."
"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."
"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos."
"Perhaps the gift you seek already resides within you awaiting the day you choose to unwrap it."
"Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all."
"I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name."
"Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody."
"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
"Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office."
"When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap."
"I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets."
"I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them."
"When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you."
"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."
"We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives."
"We know how it ends practically before it starts. That s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack"."
"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."
"The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago."
"Every action of giving creates an opposite action of receiving and what you receive is always equal to what you've given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe."
"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
"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."
"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
"Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist."
"Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma."
"I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without."
"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."
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