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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years."
"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
"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."
"Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it."
"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
"For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way."
"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 But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn."
"And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area."
"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that."
"I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?"
"I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have."
"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people."
"I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn."
"We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other."
"Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one."
"Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records."
"Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone."
"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
"Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into."
"She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . ."
"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!"
"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."
"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
"My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere."
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
"God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."
"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."
"The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
"I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction."
"When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin."
"And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity."
"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it."
"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."
"I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'"
"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
"Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches."
"I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it."
"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
"Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality."
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."
"I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run."
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