Banjo Paterson Quotes
He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die - There was courage in his quick impatient tread; And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye, And the proud and lofty carriage of his head.
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
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We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.
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Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
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I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
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A lot of my friends are in Australia, and it's definitely nice to get back there.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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I love horses.
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Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia now.
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There's no magic solution for us, we just don't have the resources at the moment. The guys we've got here are the best front-rowers in Australia at the moment.
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I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
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Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.
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There's upwards of nearly 800 franchises through Australia and New Zealand, and also we're starting to move into Dubai, China and Indonesia as well.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!
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I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
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A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.
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He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die - There was courage in his quick impatient tread; And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye, And the proud and lofty carriage of his head.
