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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
"Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get."
"I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table."
"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things."
"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."
"Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before."
"I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown."
"I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'."
"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
"I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction."
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
"I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny."
"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building."
"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me."
"This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting."
"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
"We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed."
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
"Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic."
"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
"Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control."
"In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair."
"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people."
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
"Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into."
"Right time, right place, right moment."
"Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with."
"The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition."
"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
"LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."
"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."
"We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard."
"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it."
"I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?"
"The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened."
"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."
"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
"My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me."
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