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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
"I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it."
"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."
"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."
"I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are."
"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."
"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."
"I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant."
"I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone."
"My gay audience has been with me from the beginning."
"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
"Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly."
"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've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real."
"Beyond the mask she is witness to his glorious soul. Exposed to the elements, she warms her skin in his light and essence of being."
"Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality."
"It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from."
"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."
"The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition."
"We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans."
"Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control."
"So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air."
"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."
"People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it."
"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."
"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."
"Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit."
"As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that."
"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
"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."
"Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue."
"I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'"
"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief."
"The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation."
"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it."
"If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility."
"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."
"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."
"You and I were put on this earth to serve something greater than our narrow interests. When our focus becomes self-centered instead of God-centered we lose our greatest source of power. Our God-given talents are meant to benefit others. When we use them for that greater purpose, we put faith into action to fulfill His plan for us. We make a difference in this world that helps prepare us for the next."
"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."
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
"FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano."
"Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits."
"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
"I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table."
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