Sydney Quotes

• Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Morning, Ocean, Italian

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.

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• Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

  Barbara Hershey

  Beautiful, Cities, Great Experiences

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• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Acceptance, Cities, Multicultural

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2007.

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• So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

  Rod Taylor

  Actors, Radio, Auditions

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• The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Creative, Asian, Cuisine

  "Q&A: Baz Luhrmann interview (part 2)". www.cnn.com. January 9, 2007.

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  Pamela Stephenson

  School, Watches, Going Out

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• Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Sleep, Air, Cities

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• My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

  Cathy Freeman

  Real, Race, Olympics

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

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• The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Art, People, Lost

  "Q&A Baz Luhrmann interview". www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.

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• Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.

  Matthew Nable

  Choices, Los Angeles, Given

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• Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days. Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.

  Richelle Mead

  Bed, These Days

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have strikingly different characters and visual textures. To an American like me, there's basically Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the rest is all bush.

  Michael Bierut

  Character, Thinking, Cities

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Brother, Father, Talking

  Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the same. Those returning in such ships were invincible, for they had managed it and could reflect ever after on Anne Hathaway's Cottage or the Tower of London with a confidence that did generate at Sydney. There was nothing mythic at Sydney; momentous objects, beings and events all occurred abroad or in the elsewhere of books.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Wisdom, Book, Europe

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• I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

  Damir Dokic

  Bombs, Gains, Atomic Bomb

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• Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. ʺI need a coffee shop or something.ʺ ʺI think I saw one in a cave down the road,ʺ I said. That almost got a smile from her

  Richelle Mead

  Coffee, Thinking, Clothes

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• All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.

  Richelle Mead

  I Like You, Mean, Night

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.673, Penguin

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• Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Butterfly, Blue

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.

  Steve Toltz

  Children, Vegas, Looks

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

  Anita Shreve

  Loss, Men, Thinking

  Anita Shreve (2008). “Body Surfing: A Novel”, Back Bay Books

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• I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

  Colm Toibin

  Fun, Intelligent, Australia

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• I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

  Gene Simmons

  Love You, Trying, World

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Morning, Grateful, Fighting

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• I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of... worthless. -Sydney to Rose

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Kids, Rose

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• Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Beautiful, Travel, Smart

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