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Quotes by Australian Authors
"My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere."
"I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder."
"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
"I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself."
"Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!"
"There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on."
"I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that."
"You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really."
"God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."
"We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care."
"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet."
"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
"You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine."
"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time."
"Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances."
"To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous."
"For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way."
"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
"Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum."
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."
"Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore."
"You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing."
"I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think."
"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"
"Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff."
"The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself."
"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
"I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive."
"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."
"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
"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."
"Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children."
"I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever."
"You should never live according to what you lack."
"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."
"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
"From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical."
"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room."
"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
"I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run."
"I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it."
"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
"I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things."
"We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent."
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