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Quotes by Australian Authors
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
"We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk."
"So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein."
"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."
"Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions."
"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."
"If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole."
"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability."
"Sometimes you have to risk or give up some of your financial wealth to have a richer life."
"There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination."
"We can either approach Jiu Jitsu through the lens of the "real world" or we can approach the real world through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have found the latter to be far more rewarding."
"I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think."
"The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts."
"Everything this series is being built up to be - I think it's going to live up to those expectations."
"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
"So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school."
"Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead."
"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
"Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible."
"And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them."
"The high-minded pursuit of a Jiu Jitsu practitioner pursuing mastery cannot coexist well with the modern world. Our values vary immensely from our contemporaries. This pursuit leaves societal norms slaughtered in our wake. Those who share this journey will praise our efforts, those in the hive will think we have lost it. We must be willing to be misunderstood if we are to understand ourselves."
"Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen."
"I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill."
"I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt."
"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."
"If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think."
"Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help."
"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
"We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind."
"I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography."
"My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that."
"In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you."
"When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society."
"It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education."
"It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake."
"Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics."
"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."
"I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women."
"When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway."
"I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world."
"The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time."
"My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad."
"My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in."
"I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary."
"The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up."
"People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me."
"I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick."
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