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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."
"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
"So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone."
"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
"I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality."
"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."
"So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression."
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
"I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does."
"All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving."
"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."
"Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one."
"I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team."
"I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever."
"It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility."
"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."
"Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food. The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies."
"But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do."
"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."
"I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it."
"I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone."
"When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary."
"He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold."
"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess."
"Metal rusts, music lasts forever."
"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many."
"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."
"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."
"My gay audience has been with me from the beginning."
"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."
"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."
"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
"She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self insideout and backward, then fell into a crack and lost it's name and died alone and hollow-empty in the angry dark."
"The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams."
"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."
"If its a lie,Then let me live,Between the interconnected fabric of truths,Offer me no more,Give me no less."
"I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?"
"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."
"My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense."
"It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way."
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