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Quotes by Australian Authors
"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
"I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world."
"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
"So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes."
"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."
"It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing."
"It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still."
"There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it."
"We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life."
"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography."
"If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented."
"You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it's better to act on life than simply let life act on you."
"I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words."
"You are the missing piece of my heart and soul. United we are now whole."
"I will break your heart over a fucking library card."
"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."
"Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth."
"Focus on what matters. Honour your values and make decisions that are aligned with them."
"I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting."
"If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power's the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which."
"You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself."
"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
"Some days simply lay on you like stones."
"We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual."
"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
"How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?"
"It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides."
"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."
"Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time."
"I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression."
"I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress."
"Distance may be the segregator but our thoughts and dreams are what keep us together."
"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."
"People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct."
"I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky."
"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."
"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."
"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
"Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us."
"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."
"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you."
"Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God."
"Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do."
"Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining."
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