Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 35)

"I'm actually quite conservative"

"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"

John Monash, Soldier

"The next point - that's all you must think about"

Rod Laver, Athlete

"I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization"

Noah Taylor, Actor

"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos"

Harold Edward Holt, Politician

"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure"

Errol Flynn, Actor

"Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation"

Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, Royalty

"You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy"

Rose Byrne, Actress

"They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing"

Rose Byrne, Actress

"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot"

Rose Byrne, Actress

"Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff"

Rose Byrne, Actress

"Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria"

Alexander Downer, Politician

"Sometimes it was so quiet, it's frightening. It really prioritizes things"

Toni Collette, Actress

"I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized"

Toni Collette, Actress

"Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard"

Toni Collette, Actress

"It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do"

Pat Cash, Athlete

"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it"

Noah Taylor, Actor

"It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else"

Noah Taylor, Actor

"If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange"

Nick Cave, Musician

"I think Taj and Nina were better friends, because they get along, they have a lot of fun and they laugh. But it seems that Nina and Jack really hit it off. Nina really fell in love with Jack. there's a lot of chemistry between them!"

Delta Goodrem, Actress

"You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"Official truths are often powerful illusions"

John Pilger, Journalist

"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language"

John Pilger, Journalist