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Quotes by Australian Authors
"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
"Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections."
"She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums."
"There is wisdom in knowing your limits and then daring to push past them. Choose to live an exceptional life."
"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."
"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
"In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn."
"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
"Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research."
"Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with."
"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing."
"No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection."
"A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting s going to strike"."
"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."
"It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity."
"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."
"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it."
"All stories are true, Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean. He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. "More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere."
"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
"There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it."
"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."
"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."
"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to."
"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
"It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada."
"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."
"But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens."
"There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then."
"At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."
"I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do."
"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 think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good."
"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years."
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father."
"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."
"Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off."
"It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides."
"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."
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