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Quotes by Australian Authors
"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."
"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."
"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite."
"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
"I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality."
"Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open."
"Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one."
"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people."
"I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong."
"Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign."
"I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger."
"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things."
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
"We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person."
"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."
"We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made."
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."
"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."
"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."
"To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility."
"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that."
"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."
"Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them."
"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
"I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have."
"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."
"It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team."
"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."
"On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this."
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
"There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras."
"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
"Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members."
"Systems and processes will always surpass motivation."
"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
"Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration."
"FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano."
"Unspoken words between you and I,Present in the eyes of knowing,Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,I am yours."
"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 had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!"
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you."
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