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Quotes by Australian Authors
"What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English."
"The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years."
"It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon."
"A change of feeling is a change of destiny."
"But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong."
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."
"The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it."
"I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting."
"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know."
"The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth."
"They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money."
"Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better."
"I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive."
"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria."
"Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in."
"You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry."
"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers."
"Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting."
"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood."
"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion."
"The pages aren't numbered, so I don't know whether I have the beginning or end or whether it's in sequence but these days I'm not really looking for continuity.All I'm after is something that makes sense to me."
"It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love."
"Be there when you are there. Don't try to juggle all the roles in your life. Focus on the role you are playing and do it to the best of your ability."
"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption."
"If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself."
"Your life paradigm is the set of beliefs or operating system for your life. Make sure you choose one that supports lifelong happiness."
"In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life."
"An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek."
"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."
"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."
"I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends."
"I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War."
"I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police."
"When you believe in yourself it is easier not to take criticism, knock-backs and disappointments personally."
"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."
"If you are fortunate enough to have a particular activity with which you find greatest joy and technical success, it is your responsibility as a growing human being to continue that study. Whatever your endeavor, if you can expand upon the knowledge in your strongest subject, that new found understanding of all things will trickle down to every other area of your life."
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
"If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided."
"I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks."
"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."
"I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost."
"For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late."
"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there."
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