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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people."
"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
"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."
"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 owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father."
"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
"We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard."
"I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day."
"I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years."
"I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both."
"I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors."
"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."
"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."
"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
"When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite."
"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."
"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that."
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
"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 can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
"Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand."
"Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain."
"Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control."
"You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back."
"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."
"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
"My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense."
"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."
"And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along."
"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."
"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment."
"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming."
"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
"We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage."
"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 really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."
"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."
"We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans."
"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
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