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\"Australia<\/a>
Australia quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Australia quotes. Aphorisms. ideas, thoughts on Australia and Australian people. Quotations on Australian culture, traditions and history by famous authors, writers and artists.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.<\/span>
\nPhyllis McGinley<\/span><\/p>\n

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance <\/span>for films.<\/span>
\nBruce Beresford<\/span><\/p>\n

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.<\/span>
\nDame Edna Everage<\/span><\/p>\n

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.<\/span>
\nMarc Newson<\/span><\/p>\n

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other <\/span>continents.<\/span>
\nPeter Garrett<\/span><\/p>\n

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of <\/span>mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.<\/span>
\nMary Garden<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn’t really seem any different anywhere. I’d say it seems like we’re biggest in Australia. It’s just that we’ve always been this underground band and for some reason in <\/span>the last month has been starting to go overground.<\/span>
\nJon Crosby<\/span><\/p>\n

It feels like it’s just starting in America and the UK. It’s great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but <\/span>that didn’t happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.<\/span>
\nKimbra<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is <\/span>acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.<\/span>
\nHenry Lawson<\/span><\/p>\n

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.<\/span>
\nFritz Sauckel<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There’s too little subtlety. Men and women don’t enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don’t find very many <\/span>men sexy in Australia. Of course, I’m married and out of it, but still.<\/span>
\nJudy Davis<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.<\/span>
\nNoah Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.<\/span>
\nBarry Gibb<\/span><\/p>\n

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.<\/span>
\nRobert Forster<\/span><\/p>\n

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.<\/span>
\nMahesh Bhupathi<\/span><\/p>\n

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you’d be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they’d have you put <\/span>in the loony bin.<\/span>
\nDesmond Llewelyn<\/span><\/p>\n

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I’m not daunted by the travel. People say, ‘It’s so far to Australia,’ and I say, ‘You <\/span>get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up – and you’re there.’<\/span>
\nGeoffrey Rush<\/span><\/p>\n

My parents and my grandfather on my mom’s side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.<\/span>
\nBrandi Chastain<\/span><\/p>\n

My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this will have enormous consequences for the <\/span>beef cattle industry across Australia.<\/span>
\nJulie Bishop<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quotes about Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven’t improved Australia’s security but created a greater danger at home and <\/span>abroad.<\/span>
\nBob Hawke<\/span><\/p>\n

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we’re on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word <\/span>“industry” is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.<\/span>
\nPeter Weir<\/span><\/p>\n

New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries.<\/span>
\nRobert Muldoon<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever <\/span>changed. So there were a lot of questions.<\/span>
\nPhillip Noyce<\/span><\/p>\n

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.<\/span>
\nBarry Humphries<\/span><\/p>\n

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.<\/span>
\nIan Botham<\/span><\/p>\n

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban <\/span>them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.<\/span>
\nJulie Bishop<\/span><\/p>\n

Travelling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn’t get to do. One week we’re in Japan, one week we’re in Australia, one week we’re back home going to <\/span>football games.<\/span>
\nSolange Knowles<\/span><\/p>\n

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.<\/span>
\nThomas Muster<\/span><\/p>\n

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.<\/span>
\nJohn McGahern<\/span><\/p>\n

We don’t have any sailors in Australia, we have rowers.<\/span>
\nBen Lexcen<\/span><\/p>\n

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.<\/span>
\nBarry Gibb<\/span><\/p>\n

We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.<\/span>
\nKelly Preston<\/span><\/p>\n

We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.<\/span>
\nLionel K. Murphy<\/span><\/p>\n

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; <\/span>sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.<\/span>
\nRichard O’Brien<\/span><\/p>\n

Well they’re very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There’s concern about the status of asylum <\/span>seekers in Malaysia generally, but there’s concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.<\/span>
\nJulie Bishop<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I’m not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it’s in Bahasa. But of course that’s not to suggest that the letter <\/span>came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.<\/span>
\nAlexander Downer<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.<\/span>
\nRichard Branson<\/span><\/p>\n

When I left school I went on trip around the world – I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It’s probably one of my big <\/span>regrets in life.<\/span>
\nBen Nicholson<\/span><\/p>\n

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.<\/span>
\nJames D’arcy<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.<\/span>
\nBruce Beresford<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.<\/span>
\nPatrick White<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas there’s a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone’s got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there’s not so <\/span>much competition.<\/span>
\nAndrew Jack<\/span><\/p>\n

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?<\/span>
\nHenry Lawson<\/span><\/p>\n

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That’s why they’re playing first class cricket. It’s just a different <\/span>attitude.<\/span>
\nShane Warne<\/span><\/p>\n

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Australian quotations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yeah, I think it’s an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.<\/span>
\nSteve Irwin<\/span><\/p>\n

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.<\/span>
\nBarry Gibb<\/span><\/p>\n

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around <\/span>Australia.<\/span>
\nPhillip Noyce<\/span><\/p>\n

All for Australia and the Empire.<\/span>
\nJoseph Lyons<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I’ve worked in Europe, I’ve worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a <\/span>foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.<\/span>
\nHugh Jackman<\/span><\/p>\n

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first <\/span>couple of months.<\/span>
\nBrandon Routh<\/span><\/p>\n

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can’t believe that they’re going to go to hell because they tell a <\/span>good dirty joke, you know.<\/span>
\nThomas Keneally<\/span><\/p>\n

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.<\/span>
\nPeter Garrett<\/span><\/p>\n

And the reason for that I think is that in Australia our films don’t get the exposure, so the process is foremost. But anyway, I love being part of the team and hate being <\/span>stuck in a corner somewhere.<\/span>
\nJacqueline McKenzie<\/span><\/p>\n

And then once in Australia, I really hit the weights hard.<\/span>
\nBrandon Routh<\/span><\/p>\n

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.<\/span>
\nMarc Newson<\/span><\/p>\n

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.<\/span>
\nPhil Collins<\/span><\/p>\n

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land <\/span>of our adoption.<\/span>
\nCatherine Helen Spence<\/span><\/p>\n

At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn’t do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have <\/span>another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.<\/span>
\nAdam Garcia<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.<\/span>
\nJeffrey Archer<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.<\/span>
\nTom Cochrane<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn’t get it up, but I still think there’s merit in that.<\/span>
\nSusan Oliver<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.<\/span>
\nJulie Bishop<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia integrated the – brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places – in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of <\/span>course in Ireland, north and south.<\/span>
\nThomas Keneally<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.<\/span>
\nGermaine Greer<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.<\/span>
\nAndre Benjamin<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.<\/span>
\nJulie Bishop<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to <\/span>the mind a just idea of its magnitude.<\/span>
\nCharles Sturt<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia is so cool that it’s hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really <\/span>nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.<\/span>
\nMary-Kate Olsen<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia is the most isolated continent.<\/span>
\nJared Diamond<\/span><\/p>\n

Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn’t live here, Australia would be the place to live. It’s the most Americanized country that I’ve <\/span>ever seen in the world.<\/span>
\nJerry Lawler<\/span><\/p>\n

Because in Australia there really isn’t a lot to do. There aren’t a lot of opportunities.<\/span>
\nRadha Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn’t be drafted until we were 20.<\/span>
\nMel Gibson<\/span><\/p>\n

But in practice Australia – the pluralism of Australia – sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.<\/span>
\nThomas Keneally<\/span><\/p>\n

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Australia culture and history<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there <\/span>would be no jealousy between them on England’s account.<\/span>
\nHenry Lawson<\/span><\/p>\n

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.<\/span>
\nTed Dexter<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.<\/span>
\nGeorge Grey<\/span><\/p>\n

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That’s easily overlooked.<\/span>
\nJohn Anderson<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably my mother’s life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the <\/span>climate must have helped me.<\/span>
\nCatherine Helen Spence<\/span><\/p>\n

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.<\/span>
\nRick Springfield<\/span><\/p>\n

She told fortunes for a living. It’s a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960’s.<\/span>
\nColleen McCullough<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I’ve been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it’s really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.<\/span>
\nDannii Minogue<\/span><\/p>\n

So far, and today, everything felt really great. Now I am good to get on the plane and fly to Australia.<\/span>
\nKim Clijsters<\/span><\/p>\n

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling <\/span>being marginalised even in the Catholic school.<\/span>
\nThomas Keneally<\/span><\/p>\n

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with <\/span>a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.<\/span>
\nDamon Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that’s real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.<\/span>
\nJay Weatherill<\/span><\/p>\n

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.<\/span>
\nCatherine Helen Spence<\/span><\/p>\n

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.<\/span>
\nBruce Beresford<\/span><\/p>\n

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.<\/span>
\nJohn Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.<\/span>
\nColleen McCullough<\/span><\/p>\n

The markets where we’ve got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe – where we’ve only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.<\/span>
\nJim Cantalupo<\/span><\/p>\n

The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.<\/span>
\nHarold Edward Holt<\/span><\/p>\n

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.<\/span>
\nLionel K. Murphy<\/span><\/p>\n

The Open Skies issue is something that’s ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It’s something that I think over time there’s an opportunity for us and we’ll work on that in a progressive way.<\/span>
\nJenny Shipley<\/span><\/p>\n

The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.<\/span>
\nLionel K. Murphy<\/span><\/p>\n

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.<\/span>
\nJulie Bishop<\/span><\/p>\n

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.<\/span>
\nShane Warne<\/span><\/p>\n

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.<\/span>
\nJane Badler<\/span><\/p>\n

There are better alternatives… Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.<\/span>
\nBob Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.<\/span>
\nPat Oliphant<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.<\/span>
\nErnest Istook<\/span><\/p>\n

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.<\/span>
\nRonald Biggs<\/span><\/p>\n

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Australia quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these <\/span>countries.<\/span>
\nFritz Sauckel<\/span><\/p>\n

But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just <\/span>checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.<\/span>
\nRadha Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n

By March ’87 we’re down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we’re down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was <\/span>in Australia at the time.<\/span>
\nEddie Campbell<\/span><\/p>\n

Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.<\/span>
\nPeter Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That’s what Christmas was for me <\/span>– a plane journey to the next tournament.<\/span>
\nMonica Seles<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.<\/span>
\nCharles M. Schulz<\/span><\/p>\n

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.<\/span>
\nCatherine Helen Spence<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you go to Australia today, it’s very much like visiting a state you haven’t been to.<\/span>
\nPat Oliphant<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nKylie Minogue<\/span><\/p>\n

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I’d like to see it.<\/span>
\nWalter Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.<\/span>
\nRussell Crowe<\/span><\/p>\n

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.<\/span>
\nJulia Gillard<\/span><\/p>\n

Hey bands, you’re all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I’ll record you there, Y’know that right? You don’t have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can <\/span>visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We’ll talk again soon.<\/span>
\nJim Diamond<\/span><\/p>\n

I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.<\/span>
\nSuzi Quatro<\/span><\/p>\n

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over… to have a look at me.<\/span>
\nRod Taylor<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.<\/span>
\nHelen Reddy<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.<\/span>
\nDiane Cilento<\/span><\/p>\n

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia – of the value of machinery, of roads and <\/span>bridges, and of ports for transport and export.<\/span>
\nCatherine Helen Spence<\/span><\/p>\n

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who’s from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn’t <\/span>actively shooting, there’s a lot of peripheral work.<\/span>
\nClaire Danes<\/span><\/p>\n

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it’s almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I <\/span>shouldn’t say that because I haven’t been everywhere-and I’m very fond of Perth too!<\/span>
\nJackie Collins<\/span><\/p>\n

I have worked with this red all over the world – in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia – a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and <\/span>life that connects one place with another.<\/span>
\nAndy Goldsworthy<\/span><\/p>\n

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more <\/span>intriguing.<\/span>
\nBarbara Hershey<\/span><\/p>\n

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn’t know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren’t making fun of Kylie.<\/span>
\nWayne Coyne<\/span><\/p>\n

I know it’s more five-star now than it was then, but it’s still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People <\/span>sometimes have difficulty believing that.<\/span>
\nRichie Benaud<\/span><\/p>\n

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth.<\/span>
\nSarah Michelle Gellar<\/span><\/p>\n

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.<\/span>
\nBindi Irwin<\/span><\/p>\n

I loved Australia. I was very successful there.<\/span>
\nTodd Barry<\/span><\/p>\n

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.<\/span>
\nKarrie Webb<\/span><\/p>\n

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about – over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my <\/span>life’s very full today. Not enough days in the week.<\/span>
\nMargaret Smith Court<\/span><\/p>\n

I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone.<\/span>
\nEric Bana<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in ‘The Square,’ and I was sitting in Australia going: ‘No one’s called me about working for ages. I don’t know if I’m ever <\/span>going to get another job.’<\/span>
\nJoel Edgerton<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him <\/span>4-2.<\/span>
\nEric Bristow<\/span><\/p>\n

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.<\/span>
\nDavid Attenborough<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come <\/span>back to Australia for twelve months.<\/span>
\nPeter Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank all of those who weren’t born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.<\/span>
\nJohn Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.<\/span>
\nGeoffrey Boycott<\/span><\/p>\n

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a <\/span>single Test.<\/span>
\nIan Botham<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous <\/span>country.<\/span>
\nMorton Feldman<\/span><\/p>\n

I want you to know what I have told Australia’s Parliament in Canberra – what I told General Petraeus in Kabul – what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. <\/span>Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.<\/span>
\nJulia Gillard<\/span><\/p>\n

I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.<\/span>
\nKarolina Kurkova<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to England in the ’70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more <\/span>aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn’t regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and <\/span>convicts.<\/span>
\nGeoffrey Rush<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared <\/span>from some Martian attack.<\/span>
\nRussell Crowe<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m a big goofball, you know. Don’t tell anyone that, but I’m a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.<\/span>
\nHugh Jackman<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics – yoga, swimming, running – but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like <\/span>a wanker.<\/span>
\nRyan Kwanten<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia’s better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.<\/span>
\nJohn Hewson<\/span><\/p>\n

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 <\/span>legal problems, but it’s also the only way to get to know what music is all about.<\/span>
\nAndy Gibb<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia’s a developed country, you’ve got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive <\/span>as an artist especially when you are just coming up.<\/span>
\nAndrew Jack<\/span><\/p>\n

If I’d been a housemaid I’d have been the best in Australia – I couldn’t help it. It’s got to be perfection for me.<\/span>
\nNellie Melba<\/span><\/p>\n

If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, <\/span>and I call on the people to throw them out.<\/span>
\nPauline Hanson<\/span><\/p>\n

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It’s Europe, it’s Australia, it’s the other developed and middle developing countries that <\/span>have got to do the job.<\/span>
\nSusan George<\/span><\/p>\n

If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming <\/span>of Episode 3.<\/span>
\nIan McDiarmid<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.<\/span>
\nErnie Wise<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I <\/span>think that our quality now is less than it was then.<\/span>
\nAnn Macbeth<\/span><\/p>\n

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.<\/span>
\nThomas Keneally<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.<\/span>
\nJohn Howard<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don’t have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those <\/span>kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.<\/span>
\nMary Elizabeth Donaldson<\/span><\/p>\n

Often there’s a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool <\/span>there. They always make themselves known to us.<\/span>
\nPhil Collins<\/span><\/p>\n

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