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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run."
"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
"Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all."
"To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams."
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
"Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get."
"It had felt as if I were truly awake for the first time, true knowledge running like ice in my blood.The memory exhilirated me for a moment, then left me with a broken cord of loss."
"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater."
"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
"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."
"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card."
"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 never really paid attention to sales until the second record."
"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"
"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom."
"As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards."
"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
"None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle."
"We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring."
"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."
"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
"I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back."
"I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family."
"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."
"I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know."
"We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better."
"You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back."
"In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture."
"I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line."
"I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch."
"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
"Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist."
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
"In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents."
"I'd heard you were dead."I heard you wear a red lace corset, I said matter-of-factly. "But I don't believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about."
"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."
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