Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 27)

"I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are"

Charlie Bell, Businessman

"Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore"

Robyn Davidson, Writer

"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"It's a very special venue and a very special occasion"

Matthew Hayden, Athlete

"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"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"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges"

Joe Lockhart, Journalist

"Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married"

Errol Flynn, Actor

"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content"

Anne Boyd, Composer

"My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster"

William Throsby Bridges, Soldier

"Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred"

Warren Mitchell, Actor

"Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man"

Patrick White, Author

"Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays"

Patrick White, Author

"As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains"

Patrick White, Author

"You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"I like to make movies I like to watch"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"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"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"I eat like a horse!"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman"

Peter Weir, Director

"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"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"We expected to have a good time with Clive Davis 'cause I've always liked him, his shows. I've sort of followed his career a bit 'cause he had a lot of that on PBS over here"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"Harmonies are nice"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

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Quotes by Australian authors