Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 29)

"Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature"

"The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood"

Michael Jeffery, Politician

"Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity"

Michael Jeffery, Politician

"It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"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"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income"

Errol Flynn, Actor

"There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be"

William Throsby Bridges, Soldier

"Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school"

Patrick White, Author

"We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive"

Toni Collette, Actress

"Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well"

Yvonne Strahovski, Actress

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"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"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"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"

Peter Weir, Director

"Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

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