Australian Quotes
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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.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
I didn't do a Bondy. We didn't produce anything new, just things that were in the Australian tradition - but better and stronger. Beyond the ideas I can't take any credit for the growth of the business. The kids were responsible. I was too busy with cattle and gold.
R. M. Williams
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I love Australian people.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls -
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.
Hal Porter -
Each Australian is a Ulysses.
Christina Stead -
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.
David Pryce-Jones -
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
Tony Abbott -
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
Neville Cardus
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I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
Cate Blanchett -
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.
Ricki-Lee Coulter -
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.
Georgina Haig -
I think the Australian men and American men are quite different. I feel like Australian men might be a little bit more laid back and a little bit cool whereas American guys are sort of 'boom, boom, boom.
Nicky Whelan -
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.
Josh Lawson -
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin
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Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
Cate Blanchett -
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.
George Brandis -
In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.
Catherine Jinks -
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.
Ricky Ponting -
The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
Tony Abbott -
I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley