Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 36)

"Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?"

"I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special"

Delta Goodrem, Actress

"I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were"

Shane Warne, Athlete

"Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution"

Alexander Downer, Politician

"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"

Nick Cave, Musician

"In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to"

Warren Mitchell, Actor

"I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again"

Warren Mitchell, Actor

"I've always had an obligation to creation, above all"

Nick Cave, Musician

"I just can't help but see things differently"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"It's not a company of exponents of my style"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn"

Natalie Imbruglia, Musician

"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people"

Miles Franklin, Writer

"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart"

Joseph Cook, Politician

"I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music"

Nick Cave, Musician

"I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone"

Eric Bana, Actor

"When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary"

Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, Royalty

"I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog"

John Pilger, Journalist

"The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers"

Charlie Bell, Businessman

"We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys"

Bryan Brown, Actor

"I am very tenacious"

Jenny Craig, Celebrity

"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS"

Bill Hayden, Politician

"You can't make people respond"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

"I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense"

Peter Weir, Director

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Quotes by Australian authors