Quotes by Australian/Australia authors (page 46)

"As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000"

Julian Assange, Activist

"You don't choose. I just go where the work is"

Jacqueline McKenzie, Actress

"It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes"

Julian Assange, Activist

"True information does good"

Julian Assange, Activist

"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship"

Julian Assange, Activist

"A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it"

Judy Davis, Actress

"It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in"

Jacqueline McKenzie, Actress

"I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product"

Jacqueline McKenzie, Actress

"I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that"

Dawn Fraser, Athlete

"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body"

David Wenham, Actor

"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up"

Peter Dawson, Musician

"We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me"

Dawn Fraser, Athlete

"It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood"

Alex O'Loughlin, Actor

"Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time"

Joan Sutherland, Musician

"I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another"

Joan Sutherland, Musician

"The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical"

Julian Assange, Activist

"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform"

Julian Assange, Activist

"We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up"

Julian Assange, Activist

"We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit"

Julian Assange, Activist

"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them"

Julian Assange, Activist

"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is"

Judy Davis, Actress

"That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off"

Jacqueline McKenzie, Actress

"I can't do theatre in the US,' she says, 'because I don't have a green card"

Jacqueline McKenzie, Actress

"As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

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