Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Australian Authors - Page 19

I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not.

That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

Byron Saxton is creepy. He has a relationship between me and him going on in his head. I'm not included in this personally - like, I am, but I'm not. He has a weird fetish with my feet: he loves to call me different kinds of names, like 'Samoan Sweetcake' and 'Twinkle Toes.' It goes on from there.

When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it's game over for everyone else.

In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

We literally live right in the middle of the zoo, and it means that every day is a new experience and so much fun.

I'm so quirky and weird, so I need a weirdo to hang out with!

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

I've always been a little shy about taking my clothes off, but I don't worry about it any more.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

I studied classical percussion for ten years.

My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.

Our food pyramid, the kind of diet that is constantly promoted, is completely warped. It's not based around anything to do with healing your body.

True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.

When you, like if you sing a song and it gets into your brain that it becomes, it repeats and repeats like an affirmation so I find that quite empowering and quite important to keep my positive attitude to life.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.

It's more difficult for me to get into a character in the lead-up as opposed to leaving it.

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

At 15 I was very clumsy, big feet and my footwork wasn't great. I was definitely not quick.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

I am naturally a very curious person.

What comedy does, for the most part, is it voices something so simplistically that people will agree with us, and then once you agree with something, you go, 'That's what I think.' So what you're trying to do is try to voice arguments that people get on a side with. So they can use that, maybe at a dinner party, themselves.

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

Peace, unity and harmony!

I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

You can't rush an art form.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

I receive underwear - some clean, some not. No joke. My assistant who helps me with my fan mail constantly threatens to quit because of what we get sent.

I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.

It was an absolute honour to fight in Vegas. Every fighter dreams of fighting at the MGM Grand. That's where so many legends have fought before and so many legends will continue to fight.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

I go about my craft as a professional and learn ways to get better, trying to carry myself in a way that I think can inspire others.

Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.

You have to learn to be fluid and go where you're needed, when you're needed. You've gotta be flexible. I think that's what acting is.

I don't care how young I am, I'm going to work until I'm at the top.

The difference between a good shot and bad shot can be an inch to the left.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I just play drums, mate.

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful, there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money, you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.

Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

For my teen years and all of my twenties it felt like I was trying to live up to this expectation of being a man and what that meant - not just what clothes I wore, but how I acted.