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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years."
"Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is."
"City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure."
"It's easy to be brave when everything is going your way. When the going gets tough, it takes courage to follow the path you believe in."
"I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out."
"Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen."
"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
"The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself."
"They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows."
"We can never bring anything to us unless we are grateful for what we have. In fact, if somebody were completely and utterly grateful for everything, they would never have to ask for anything, because it would be given to them before they even asked."
"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me."
"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people."
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
"Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia."
"I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'."
"So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty."
"To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired."
"Let go of the idea of winning or losing. In the game of life, the most important thing is just showing up and doing your best."
"Remember, however bad things might be right now, this moment will pass and your life will continue to be a good one."
"Sometimes being happy will require some difficult conversations. Some of those conversations will be with yourself."
"Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head."Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh."
"I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels."
"People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else."
"Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult."
"Be honest with yourself. You can't be the best you can be unless you know who you really are."
"Focusing on scarcity will only create more of the same."
"I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone."
"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left."
"One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work."
"The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future."
"A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times."
"We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car."
"It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you."
"That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things."
"I think Taj and Nina were better friends, because they get along, they have a lot of fun and they laugh. But it seems that Nina and Jack really hit it off. Nina really fell in love with Jack. there's a lot of chemistry between them!"
"I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life."
"I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer."
"I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again."
"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
"It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."
"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"
"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
"Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors."
"Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress."
"If you are generous in your relationships you will receive as much as you give."
"On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account."
"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."
"It's okay to aspire to a better life, but don't let it stop you from enjoying the life you already have."
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