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Quotes by Australian Authors
"This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters."
"No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry."
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
"There is no such thing as security. There never has been."
"Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are."
"It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else."
"As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back."
"My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem."
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
"Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't."
"I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily."
"Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there."
"The road from white belt to black is long and arduous; most never reach the end. There are simply too many obstacles of daily life, and too much effort and attention required, for this to be something that the majority of practitioners achieve. This is why a black belt in Jiu Jitsu, especially from a reputable source, is the pinnacle of martial arts rank. It is valuable because of what must be traded for its achievement."
"The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly."
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
"Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find."
"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time."
"The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else."
"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."
"I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels."
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
"Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary."
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
"We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys."
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
"I'd say without a doubt I've had the most sex scenes in any television show, ever. Last season I did eight sex scenes in one day - I haven't topped that yet."
"There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows."
"I love the way you make me feel. I was incomplete without you."
"I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene."
"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."
"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
"I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day."
"The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder."
"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive."
"Right time, right place, right moment."
"I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown."
"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."
"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
"In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair."
"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman."
"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."
"I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture."
"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."
"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
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