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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde."
"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear."
"Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores."
"For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?"
"If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is."
"When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced."
"There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall."
"Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu's angels. They were like heroes and kings. They belonged in stories. They belonged out there. Taborlin the Great called up fire and lightning to destroy demons. Tehlu broke them in his hands and sent them howling into the nameless void. Your childhood friend didn't stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. It was ridiculous."
"I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night."
"Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain."
"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
"A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind."
"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."
"Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart."
"Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments."
"I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it."
"Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war."
"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess."
"I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing."
"Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve."
"I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler."
"Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not."
"What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!"
"It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine.If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake.But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy."
"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
"They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences."
"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
"I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen."
"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."
"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it."
"It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing."
"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."
"I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?"
"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
"Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future."
"When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes."
"There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen."
"As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working."
"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."
"Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth."
"It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada."
"I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role."
"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive."
"My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife."
"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator."
"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started."
"But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity."
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