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Quotes by Australian Authors
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
"We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent."
"When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing."
"Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold."
"I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry."
"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."
"It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia."
"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them."
"Jesus was not a carpenter forever."
"I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die."
"We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed."
"The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams."
"Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."
"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship."
"It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get."
"It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it."
"I think my parents see my life now as very conservative."
"All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing."
"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."
"So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy."
"The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true."
"...you cannot be a leader if no one is willing to follow and work alongside you. An arrogant person does not ask for help and is therefore helpless. An arrogant person claims to know everything and thus is clueless. A humble person attracts helpers and teachers."
"Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney."
"I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics."
"There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands."
"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."
"We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic."
"It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties."
"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
"They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously."
"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right."
"New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories."
"What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough."
"People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions."
"There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink."
"I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press."
"Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator."
"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."
"Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature."
"Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league."
"I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention."
"I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you."
"We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors."
"I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more."
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