Australian Quotes
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I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.
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It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
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It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.
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The Australian model - which was a fair degree of liberalization but not the full Chicago school treatment - did better.
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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
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You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
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The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.
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Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.
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Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.
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I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.
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I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.
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Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
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Being Australian, I'm probably more used to sunshine and the beach. I've never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time.
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In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
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We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
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It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.
