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Quotes by Australian Authors
"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."
"I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it."
"When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary."
"She drinks in his nakedness. Her sixth sense of knowing assures her that he is the one she has been waiting for all her life."
"This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting."
"I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown."
"Unspoken words between you and I,Present in the eyes of knowing,Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,I am yours."
"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
"The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind."
"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
"Soul mate love transcends beyond the ethereal plane."
"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."
"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."
"He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places."
"What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos."
"Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before."
"We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed."
"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."
"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment."
"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."
"...one of the best ways to take the pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude."
"Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic."
"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
"We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset."
"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
"The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set."
"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."
"I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it."
"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!"
"I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record."
"I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can."
"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
"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."
"I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy."
"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."
"In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived."
"I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind."
"I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality."
"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
"I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself."
"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
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