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Quotes by Australian Authors
"After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude."
"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."
"Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain."
"It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual."
"No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out."
"The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping."
"My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way."
"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."
"With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor."
"Pave the path for a more righteous life."
"I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business."
"They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records."
"Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing."
"Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing."
"Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions."
"I wish I felt as calm as I look."
"I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger."
"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."
"Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul."
"My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me."
"I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required."
"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."
"I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years."
"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
"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."
"I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors."
"Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning."
"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."
"The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu, it was to master myself."
"It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match."
"Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold."
"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
"The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".''Do I?"
"I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were."
"Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve."
"I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians."
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
"It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time."
"People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
"Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not."
"It was my letting go that gave me a better hold."
"When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap."
"A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains."
"If its a lie,Then let me live,Between the interconnected fabric of truths,Offer me no more,Give me no less."
"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."
"I believe we must pursue mastery for who we become along the way in its achievement. When we progress in Jiu Jitsu, that newfound experience and wisdom transcends into all areas of our lives. We use Jiu Jitsu as the vehicle for growth, but that growth radiates over all of human activity. Someone who devotes time and energy in learning this skill is learning far more than how to subdue an opponent. The student learns persistence, perseverance, pattern recognition, problem solving, and most importantly, learning how to learn. In the arena of life, these virtues are far more valuable than any guard pass."
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