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Quotes by Australian Authors
"It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!"
"The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down."
"There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet."
"It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice."
"The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it."
"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more."
"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them."
"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes."
"This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment."
"Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want."
"People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it."
"Through being fired I was given the perfect circumstances to finally answer my calling and live my dream, and I remain grateful to this day for that television network firing me. Without them, I would have refused the call to follow my dream, and I would have missed living the most exciting and fulfilling journey of my life."
"On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other."
"If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country."
"I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it."
"I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to."
"Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it."
"I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation."
"At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin."
"Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street."
"You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain."
"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."
"I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time."
"I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff."
"So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started."
"I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la."
"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
"I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here."
"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."
"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
"I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal."
"We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care."
"We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive."
"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things."
"I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while."
"We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region."
"People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors."
"Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character."
"It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it."
"We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life."
"You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank."
"It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides."
"Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on."
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