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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that."
"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
"I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated."
"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
"I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed."
"Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you."
"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming."
"Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England."
"They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously."
"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
"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."
"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
"We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring."
"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."
"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."
"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."
"I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship."
"We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard."
"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."
"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."
"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
"Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts."
"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
"Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement."
"I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason."
"I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently."
"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."
"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you."
"All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving."
"Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet."
"I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
"I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong."
"I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them."
"I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever."
"You should never live according to what you lack."
"Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical."
"Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food. The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies."
"Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things."
"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."
"Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is."
"From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity."
"Maintain purity of heart.Trust in the process.Hold steadfast to your belief of self.Never loose sight of your smile."
"I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me."
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