Australian Quotes - Page 8

• I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, People, Reform

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

  Paul Keating

  Country, Australia, May

  "Interview with former prime minister Paul Keating". "Lateline" with Tone Jones, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.

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• You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

  Paul Keating

  Two, Australia Day, Government

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• I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

  Stefan Edberg

  Winning, Special, Wimbledon

  "Adieu to an elegant assassin: Stefan Edberg interview". Interview with John Roberts, www.independent.co.uk. June 23, 1996.

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• You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

  Andrew Bogut

  Football, Two, Different

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

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• I do have a lot of Australian friends.

  Simon Baker

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.

  Adelaide Clemens

  Wonderful Friends, Long, Groups

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

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• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Country, Home, People

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• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Strong, Intellectual, Identity

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• I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

  Mem Fox

  Children, Home, World

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• My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

  Mem Fox

  Mother, Blow, Doors

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• The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And I loved Reality Hunger, David Shields' recent novel take on the art of the novel.

  Teju Cole

  Art, Reality, Australia

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.

  Grant Bowler

  Mean, Media, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Kids, Thinking, Grew Up

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• I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Moments, Producers, Screenplays

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Party, Rocks, Self

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• Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.

  Tom Hooper

  Mother, Kings, Reading

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Accents, Coaches, Vocal

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

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• There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

  Nick Park

  Film, Offbeat, Seems

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• I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.

  Brad Williams

  Country, Australia, People

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw the bill because we didn't to trust that it would be as they described and it's turned out we were exactly right for saying that. The Government has been entirely deceptive with this. And if their first action is to lie to the Australian people about what was meant to be their centrepiece bill, that really tells you want the [Malcolm] Turnbull Government's going to be about.

  Tony Burke

  Lying, Government, People

  "Gov't 'can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation': Tony Burke". Interview with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. August 30, 2016.

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• Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

  Eric Abetz

  People, Conservative, Connotation

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

  Charles Sturt

  Climate, Wool, Soil

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.20

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• Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

  Peter Costello

  Party, Influential Person, West

  Source: www.petercostello.com.au

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• All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

  Ann Macbeth

  Art, Years, Battle

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