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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true."
"I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that."
"No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out."
"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer."
"You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird."
"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything."
"Live your life with courageous integrity. Do the right thing, not the easy thing."
"You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing."
"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
"When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again."
"What if all I ever wanted out of everything I have been chasing was not the thing itself but to be happy, to feel good?Heidi C."
"I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference."
"I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood."
"It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in."
"I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off."
"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing."
"We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions."
"It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate."
"The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus."
"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."
"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young."
"I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher."
"Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against her."
"You can't make someone do something just because you want them to. What you do have, however, is the opportunity to influence their choices."
"If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again."
"I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter."
"When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off."
"You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself."
"We attract what is happening in our lives."
"Jiu Jitsu has given me something to pursue. We all need something to work towards. For people, as well as every piece of matter in the universe, there is no such thing as maintenance. If you are not growing you are decaying. The insidious nature of modern times is that it is so easy not to pursue anything. Societal norms pressure us into jobs we do not like, and the daily comforts of televisions and computers offer much in the way of distraction. If that isn't enough, there is always the numbing effects of alcohol coupled with attention-grabbing sporting events which conveniently run year round so one is never short of stimulus."
"When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change."
"They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant."
"I believe and therefore I am."
"You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy."
"As far as our relation to the physical world, I doubt there will be much more improvement. Our basic survival needs have been met, and much of our current progress is superfluous or downright troublesome. Most advancement is performed out of comfort rather than necessity. What we are lacking, what the world so desperately needs now, is adjustments of the mind. We need to see the world again with fresh eyes, and come to an understanding of who we are as individuals, and what drives us."
"I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer."
"Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so."
"Don't be afraid to take a chance. The worst that can happen is that you don't succeed this time."
"That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self."
"People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances."
"People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything."
"The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see."
"I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things."
"Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays."
"Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about."
"We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us."
"Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices."
"Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?"
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