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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Many of us begin this art with little to no understanding of what we are getting ourselves into. Then, maybe a year or a black belt later, we realize this odyssey we have embarked upon and rest happily in knowing we have chosen a noble struggle.I think we owe most of our successes to our initial ignorance. When we begin, we cannot see the obstacles ahead, and so we march on optimistically. In hindsight, when we look back and connect the dots, we see just how green we were at the start, and it was only our ignorance that upheld us from the crushing despair of the task at hand."
"I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay."
"I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved."
"I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out."
"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved."
"Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have."
"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail."
"A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side."
"Be courageous in yourdecision-making. Stand by your choices and never look back."
"Her thought encased in a cocoon of desire. She allows the streams of sunlight to warm the core of her being while she waits for metamorphous."
"The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire."
"People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver."
"There is nothing wrong with deciding that you don't want something, but if you do want it, go out and get it!"
"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."
"The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia."
"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
"We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy."
"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically."
"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."
"We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us."
"I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away."
"The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one."
"So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live."
"The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business."
"Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives."
"With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically."
"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."
"The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit."
"I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life."
"There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals."
"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
"I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four."
"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."
"To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that."
"People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities."
"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race."
"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is."
"Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name."
"Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting."
"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."
"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
"I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence."
"In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues."
"Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?"
"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."
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