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Quotes by Australian Authors
"The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel."
"I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play."
"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
"Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn't be."
"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief."
"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."
"I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea."
"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
"I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled."
"Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it."
"I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can."
"It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work."
"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest."
"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
"Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn't have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!"
"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."
"Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret."
"I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby."
"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."
"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior."
"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."
"Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different."
"We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing."
"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
"He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away."
"I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows."
"I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see."
"Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good."
"Family, nature and health all go together."
"Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them."
"In the end, the sum of my vices is all me."
"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn."
"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
"Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons."
"The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness."
"It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell."
"Through Jiu Jitsu I have developed many of the most meaningful relationships in my life, and if that were the only benefit of my practice, Jiu Jitsu would still be the best endeavor I have ever undertaken."
"Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community."
"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform."
"Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second."
"She wakes, she smiles .... because she is enevloped in the warmth of loving you."
"I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now."
"In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on."
"My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county."
"That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off."
"We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day."
"You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key."
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