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Quotes by Australian Authors
"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."
"Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold."
"We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product."
"I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
"Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office."
"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred."
"I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real."
"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
"Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system."
"I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me."
"Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly."
"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."
"The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable."
"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
"As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy."
"We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are."
"No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science."
"As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe."
"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."
"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
"Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude."
"They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing."
"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
"We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed."
"...you cannot be a leader if no one is willing to follow and work alongside you. An arrogant person does not ask for help and is therefore helpless. An arrogant person claims to know everything and thus is clueless. A humble person attracts helpers and teachers."
"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise."
"I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better."
"Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important."
"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
"So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind."
"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 was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky."
"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."
"I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school."
"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."
"'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices."
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
"...one of the best ways to take the pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude."
"I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here."
"In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film."
"It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness."
"I never really paid attention to sales until the second record."
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