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Quotes by Australian Authors
"If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing."
"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
"The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia."
"I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level."
"I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting."
"I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me."
"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."
"I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood."
"As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle for growth, and the moment I do I will certainly pursue it with the rivaled fervor that I approached Jiu Jitsu."
"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
"In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows."
"After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings."
"Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to."
"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."
"The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did."
"The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out."
"Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum."
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."
"Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks."
"We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard."
"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
"I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business."
"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."
"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is"."
"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's."
"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high."
"You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back."
"I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do."
"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do."
"When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen."
"My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth."
"My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him."
"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."
"If you can't get a miracle, become one."
"I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet."
"There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying."
"As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing."
"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."
"Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe."
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