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Quotes by Australian Authors
"On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length."
"We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting."
"Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit."
"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."
"Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments."
"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."
"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."
"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better."
"Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia."
"There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it."
"We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed."
"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft."
"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming."
"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."
"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."
"We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring."
"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."
"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
"Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that."
"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once."
"My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine."
"That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon."
"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff."
"If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility."
"I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch."
"Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face."
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection."
"There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras."
"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed."
"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."
"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
"FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano."
"I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it."
"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
"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."
"Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability."
"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."
"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important."
"I couldn't sing to save myself. Greg went to John after the audition and said, 'She's cute, but she can't sing very well' and he said, 'I know. We'll teach her. I just want her on the show'."
"Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you."
"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day."
"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."
"I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been."
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