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Quotes by Australian Authors
"If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out."
"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."
"We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans."
"This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn."
"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
"I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged."
"I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can."
"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
"As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back."
"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
"I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality."
"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it."
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman."
"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 had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!"
"Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records."
"Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing."
"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
"Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments."
"Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God."
"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
"I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was."
"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
"Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not."
"When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap."
"Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites."
"I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart."
"As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that."
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."
"I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression."
"It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get."
"It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way."
"The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart."
"With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically."
"At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin."
"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
"It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada."
"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
"The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that."
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