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Quotes by Australian Authors
"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
"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."
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
"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!"
"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
"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."
"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences."
"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
"You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge. I mean, they wouldn't just throw you from this table to that wall."
"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
"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.'"
"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech."
"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."
"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."
"I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business."
"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building."
"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
"The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu, it was to master myself."
"Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible."
"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
"It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time."
"Soul mate love transcends beyond the ethereal plane."
"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
"What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos."
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
"The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition."
"I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated."
"The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle."
"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
"It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together."
"Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too."
"I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all."
"I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do."
"The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened."
"I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn."
"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."
"Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things."
"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. . . ."
"After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was."
"I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction."
"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."
"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."
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