Quotes by Australian authors
I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
Ben Mendelsohn
Australian actor
Fitness is amplified in one-day cricket - fielding, running ones, twos, threes. Sometimes in an over you are running six twos. If you are not fit enough, you can't run those runs.
Mickey Arthur
South African-Australian cricketer
I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that down-home acoustic riff.
Orianthi
Australian guitarist
But when you truly get to know me, I'm a good guy. I'm not the bad boy people think I am.
Bernard Tomic
Australian tennis player
To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
Kate Forsyth
Australian author
I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'
Gillian Armstrong
Australian film director
I spoke to a UFO researcher about an experience that I had. It was very strange and trust me, you don't want to hear about it.
Jessica Origliasso
Australian singer-songwriter
I think all the Australians have that. They're willing to give up a bit of their own glory for the better of the group.
Joe Ingles
Australian professional basketball player
I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.
Mark Webber
Australian race car driver
If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.
Rachael Taylor
Australian actress
Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.
Bill Hayden
Australian politician
Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.
Bill Hayden
Australian politician
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
Peter Weir
Australian film director
I think you have to go out believing you can win the match; otherwise, there's no point walking out on the court, really.
Ashleigh Barty
Australian tennis player
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Malcolm Fraser
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.
Nick Earls
Novelist
It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
Eric Bana
Australian actor
The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
Jacki Weaver
Australian theatre actress
I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.
Catherine Martin
Australian costume designer,
I'm not the type of guy who's going to train five or six hours a day. I never needed to.
Bernard Tomic
Australian tennis player
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