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Quotes by Australian Authors
"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."
"I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run."
"I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were."
"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."
"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!"
"Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit."
"Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all."
"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
"Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality."
"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."
"He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places."
"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater."
"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that."
"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."
"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."
"And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along."
"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."
"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
"It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada."
"I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience."
"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important."
"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 only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
"There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties."
"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
"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."
"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father."
"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"
"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."
"Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off."
"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."
"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."
"Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks."
"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."
"Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."
"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that."
"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."
"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
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