Australia Quotes - Page 18

• National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

  Peter Weir

  Moving, Feelings, Hollywood

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• In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Rocks, Quality

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

  Eric Bristow

  Winning, Legs, Cups

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

  Jeremy Grantham

  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

  Naomi Watts

  Memories, Years, Firsts

  "Watts Turns Back on Australia". The Daily Telegraph, April 24, 2007.

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• Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years

  Sourav Ganguly

  Winning, Years, Two

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• Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

  Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

  Running, Queens, People

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• We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Sri Lanka, Play, England

  "Mahela Jayawardene" by Charlie Austin, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, www.espncricinfo.com. 2007.

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• I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

  Rebel Wilson

  Country, School, Years

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• I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

  Jason Gann

  Hollywood Films, Work Out, Done

  "Elijah Wood and Jason Gann Talk WILFRED Season 1 Finale Cliffhanger and Ideas for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

  Jason Gann

  Real, Writing, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

  Bill Shorten

  Party, Ideas, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.

  J. Robbins

  Mean, Artist, Fans

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.

  Tony Abbott

  Simple, Two, Pay

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• Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

  Tony Abbott

  Retirement, Zero, People

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• The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

  Richie Benaud

  Jam, Tyres, Radio

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• Australia is so entrenched in rock'n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Rocks, Band, Way

  "Ricki-Lee Coulter: 'Everyone's got a bit of Hanson in them'". Interview with Bridie Jabour, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2013.

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• I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists, and there are the humanities people, and there are chemists and the physicists and everybody snipes at everybody else and inter-disciplinary communication is rare. But it's very precious and necessary.

  Richard Lewontin

  Communication, America, Discipline

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreigner. I missed Australia, and I can't tell why. It's just this is what I grew up with and this is the things I wanted to make meaning of in my life.

  Richard Meale

  Home, Spain, Not Happy

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

  Ken Ham

  Book, Reading, School

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• I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

  Julian Assange

  Hands, People, Reform

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• If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.

  Ursula Burns

  Russia, Doors, Names

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• I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well.

  Waqar Younis

  Team, Play, Lasts

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• Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

  Chris Lilley

  Asian, Dresses, Fine

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want faith; but I am faithless

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Want, Faithless

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