Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Australian Authors - Page 17

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

I have a dog and a cat, and they are best friends.

I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.

I remember when I was much younger maybe about five, mum, dad, David and I would all race each other one lap of the pool and I remember coming last every time.

We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

The years I had the 100 centuries, I should probably have had around 120 because I got addicted like hell to 'Fifa 14.'

There aren't often plus size, very real normal women in film. It's never their story.

At the end of the day we're humans. Treat others how you want to be treated or just be quiet.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.

Whether straight, gay, bi, trans... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.

I like girls who are laid back and fun to be around.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

There's a cafe in Mosman near where I lived and if I have any days off I go there at 10 in the morning with my notebook, sit in the same chair, order the same breakfast and coffee, write my thoughts down, and chat, have the same conversation with the owner.

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney.

If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias built into the artificial intelligence of the future.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I just wanted to have a private life.

Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

I feel like if you boil supernatural ghost films down to their core essence, they're really about death.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation.

I was talking to Rupert Murdoch the other day at a lunch, and he said, 'Maybe I'll live to 100'. He actually thinks he will live to 100!

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

Dance is so joyous.

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.

That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.

Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.

If you go into a studio without a set effectively, you've got a blue screen. As a DP you have to light it of what you think it should look like. You don't have any reference of what the background looks like. You might have some concepts, but effectively you're lighting it as what you think it should look like.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

I like to do things that you need to chip away at.

I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

How can you prepare for something when you don't know what it's going to be?

I'm a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.

I have no problem breaking stereotypes. And proving people wrong - it's actually quite fun.

People think you should be happy all the time but you can't.

I hate guns.