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Quotes by Australian Authors
"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."
"I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them."
"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you."
"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."
"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap."
"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."
"The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form."
"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom."
"I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it."
"Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech."
"People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions."
"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."
"I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded."
"There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties."
"Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character."
"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."
"I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence."
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
"It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think."
"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
"...putting your faith into action is not a passive exercise. You have to actively and willfully take the necessary steps to locate and move along the path God designed for you."
"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."
"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."
"I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away."
"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."
"What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine."
"I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product."
"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief."
"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."
"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
"Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey."
"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."
"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."
"I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world."
"The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out."
"And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area."
"Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting."
"We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids."
"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
"I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy."
"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."
"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that."
"There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything."
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