Sydney Quotes - Page 5

• I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertaken at ANU, I started a BFA in Sydney which I completed at VCA in Melbourne.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Art, School, Degrees

  The Condition Report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

  Jane Alison

  Memories, Home, California

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.

  Rose Byrne

  Art, Class, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Teacher, Father, School

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• Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Stupid, Common Sense, Prejudice

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.284

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• I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.

  George Brandis

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

  Michael Connelly

  Writing, Paris, Stories

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• When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

  Deborah Kara Unger

  Art, School, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

  Elspeth Huxley

  Children, Two, Three

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• I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'.

  Ronald Graham

  Science, Two, Numbers

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• This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Wife, Brain, Female

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• Aren't you failing English?" I asked. Angeline flushed. "It's not my fault." "Even I know you can't write an article on Wikipedia and then use it as a source in your own essay." Sydney had been torn between horror and hysterics when she told me. "I took 'primary source' to a whole new level!" Honestly, it was a wonder we'd gotten by for so long without Angeline. Life must have been so boring before her.

  Richelle Mead

  Writing, Long, Use

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• And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

  George Carey

  Numbers, United States, Warning

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

  Bryan Brown

  Boys, Western, Suburbs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

  Poppy Montgomery

  School

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• As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Boys, Giving, Theatre

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• I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Land, Voice, Sound

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• Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.

  Graeme Murphy

  Strong, Very Good, Following

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• There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

  Graeme Murphy

  Dancer, Waiting, Lines

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• Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, Cheer, Growing Up

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• I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

  John Henry Carver

  Memories, Father, Journey

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• It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Italian, Hair, Long

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• Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Mean, Blue, Shining

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• As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.

  Markus Zusak

  Children, Dad, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

  John Newbery

  Trying, Technique, Tangier

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