Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 45)

"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York"

"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself"

Patrick Rafter, Athlete

"I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well"

Patrick Rafter, Athlete

"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage"

Julian Assange, Activist

"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks"

Julian Assange, Activist

"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police"

Julian Assange, Activist

"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic"

Julian Assange, Activist

"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her"

Judy Davis, Actress

"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle"

Judy Davis, Actress

"We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences"

Jacqueline McKenzie, Actress

"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States"

Julian Assange, Activist

"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated"

Julian Assange, Activist

"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature"

Julian Assange, Activist

"I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see"

Julian Assange, Activist

"As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly"

Julian Assange, Activist

"My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"I like playing the villain"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

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