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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required."
"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."
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
"I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all."
"To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams."
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
"Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits."
"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."
"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."
"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it."
"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."
"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
"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."
"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."
"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming."
"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 sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
"None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle."
"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."
"I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back."
"Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't."
"I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture."
"Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain."
"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
"I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason."
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
"You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back."
"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."
"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it."
"I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real."
"I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch."
"I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself."
"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."
"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."
"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."
"I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run."
"I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were."
"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."
"Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible."
"No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!"
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