Australia Quotes - Page 17

• I think what speaks loudest and what speaks to your point is the blood that's spilling from Australia, to now California. I mean, how much blood has to be spilled until we recognize inside of a Muslim community that with do have an ideological problem?

  Dalia Mogahed

  Mean, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia; internationally they haven't worked so well because people don't know the films as well as in the English speaking languages. So when it comes to putting the budgets together it's quite challenging. So those are the problems you have.

  Eric Fellner

  People, Challenges, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.

  Jenny Hval

  Girl, Invisible, Conversation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Hate, Ocean, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

  Tanc Sade

  Soccer, Thinking, Rugby

  Source: collider.com

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• The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

  Peter Garrett

  Challenges, Climate, Nuclear

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• I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

  Ben Hecht

  Bird, Kind, Talent

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• England is my home, but Australia is my land and my country. This is where my heart is and where my family are. Australia will always be there, but I've made the decision to live here.

  Jason Donovan

  Country, Home, Heart

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.

  Jacques Myard

  Sorry, Years, Feminist

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I met many Christians leaving the Middle East, hoping to come to Australia feeling they would leave behind a society where they were inferiors in their native lands and they are disturbed about the rise of more separate radical Islam in Australia, not necessarily the main stream but there is a voice.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Voice, Land

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

  Ian McLeod

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013.

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• From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

  Douglas MacArthur

  Ideas, Victory, East

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• If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

  Ursula Vernon

  Queens, Book, Fate

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• Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face. There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.

  Bill Shorten

  Real, Life And Death, Challenges

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• There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Shoes, Two, Laughing

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• I have no problem with my age. I've been acting for 50 years in Australia and everyone knows my age because I started at 15. So there was never any point in lying about it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Lying, Years, Age

  "Cinderella story for 'Silver Linings Playbook' Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver" by George Pennacchio, abc7.com. February 20, 2013.

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• The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.

  Julia Gillard

  Loss, Would Be, Great Loss

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• I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

  Penelope Mitchell

  Wind, Careers, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Challenges, Film, Accents

  Source: collider.com

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• My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.

  Jacki Weaver

  New York, Musical, Taste

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.

  Jacki Weaver

  Twilight, Years, Trying

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mouths, Earth, Ambassadors

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• The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.

  Ian McLeod

  Country, Cost, World

  "Coles boasts about media campaign to silence 'milk war' critics" by Oliver Laughland, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.

  Gough Whitlam

  Memorable, Army, Giving

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• I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

  Ava Gardner

  World, Film, Imagine

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