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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?"
"To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt."
"Everyone has a different journey in life. Don't judge someone else for theirs."
"The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market."
"But grieving people are selfish. They won't let you comfort them and they say you don't understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you've been functional to them."
"I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were."
"The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation."
"We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage."
"It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul."
"I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much"."
"Look for the joy in each and every day. Just because it isn't immediately obvious, that doesn't mean it's not there."
"I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children."
"The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation."
"I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived."
"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money."
"As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy."
"As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe."
"I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care."
"Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other."
"I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better."
"You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree."
"My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'"
"I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps."
"The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others."
"I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end."
"If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!"
"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
"TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that."
"Creation means that something new is created - which automatically replaces the old. You don't have to think about what you want to change; instead, think about what you want to create."
"The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental."
"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States."
"I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth."
"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner."
"Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever."
"I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today."
"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away."
"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."
"My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop."
"It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did."
"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother."
"South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections."
"Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising."
"I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame."
"I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping."
"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."
"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."
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