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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."
"Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand."
"I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world."
"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't."
"Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling."
"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all."
"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father."
"I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product."
"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience."
"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."
"In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity."
"Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route."
"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."
"The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses."
"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."
"Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions."
"I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying."
"Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."
"Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that."
"I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running."
"Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people."
"Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial."
"I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff."
"I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know."
"I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason."
"Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again."
"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."
"For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America."
"Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me."
"I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here."
"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way."
"My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is."
"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."
"I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business."
"You help families focus on the future through their children."
"I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it."
"Just because there is an obstacle in your path, that doesn't mean you have to get off the road."
"Love and be loved. Settle for no less. Ask for no more."
"Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing."
"I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me."
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
"In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced."
"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."
"The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train."
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