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Quotes by Australian Authors
"Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner."
"The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence."
"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart."
"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."
"Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it."
"I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body."
"It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank."
"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world."
"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe."
"The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it."
"There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium."
"When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord."
"I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of."
"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."
"You were a luminescent star in the darkened sky that became my universe."
"The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities."
"Drink from my emotional offerings."
"My mind aches with a thousand stories. All variations with shredded threads of truth."
"There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement."
"God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible."
"Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation."
"You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be."
"Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them."
"I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization."
"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again."
"When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page."
"Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us."
"Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?"
"The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous."
"Machinations are divined. Response is by nature, nurture, experience and if sought peer pressure. You are the owner of free will. Choose."
"I want to be tantric with you."
"Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows."
"Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings."
"She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulously."I've been rather busy," I said. "With the running like hell and hiding all night."
"I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?"
"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
"It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication."
"People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment."
"Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?"
"I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit."
"The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again."
"I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them."
"Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way."
"He just watched the way Finnikin's hands rested on Evanjalin's neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself."
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