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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
"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."
"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."
"My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere."
"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine."
"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
"I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good."
"I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old."
"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."
"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."
"You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable."
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
"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."
"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."
"Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control."
"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
"I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind."
"I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it."
"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."
"It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up."
"She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . ."
"Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members."
"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me."
"The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu, it was to master myself."
"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
"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."
"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."
"I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder."
"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief."
"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."
"LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."
"We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset."
"The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool."
"There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them."
"I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy."
"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
"I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out."
"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."
"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
"On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this."
"Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography."
"Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things."
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
"Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward."
"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."
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