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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  Jacki Weaver

  Sweet, Children, Gay

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

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• I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

  Nik Wallenda

  Australia, House, Opera

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• I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'

  Ryan Sheckler

  Real, Mtv, Watches

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 15, 2007.

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• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Games, Feelings, Singing

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• One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Beautiful, Memories, House

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• I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

  Brendan Fraser

  Travel, Opportunity, Vietnam

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

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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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• Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Favourite City, Cities, Earth

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• I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

  Frank Gehry

  Vacation, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Fun, Dad

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• In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's really kind of a real thrill to go there. I mean, don't forget, I'm a boy from the suburbs of Sydney, so getting to New York is a huge, huge thrill.

  Hugh Jackman

  New York, Real, Mean

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. April 29, 2003.

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• The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

  Kylie Minogue

  Dad, Doctors, Two

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• If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Travel, Light, Cities

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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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