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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."
"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
"I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run."
"When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary."
"Unspoken words between you and I,Present in the eyes of knowing,Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,I am yours."
"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."
"I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!"
"I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table."
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
"We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways."
"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
"I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed."
"I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney."
"Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!"
"I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit."
"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it."
"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
"We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring."
"There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one."
"The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down."
"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've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long."
"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful."
"Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited."
"I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?"
"I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you."
"You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny."
"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."
"Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records."
"Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them."
"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
"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."
"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
"It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time."
"The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind."
"Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity."
"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
"I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction."
"Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates."
"He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places."
"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."
"For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought."
"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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