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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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding 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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He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.
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People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.
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I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.
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When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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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.
