Australia Quotes - Page 25

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  Samantha Stosur

  Player, Prize Money, Tennis

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

  Tammin Sursok

  Life Changing, Home, Changed

  "Rising Star: Tammin Sursok". www.seventeen.com. August 31, 2010.

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• Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.

  Tammin Sursok

  Beautiful, Beach, Growing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

  Charles Sturt

  Islands, Order, Ideas

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.12

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• My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

  Kodi Smit-McPhee

  Acting, Grew Up, Used

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

  Anna Torv

  Years, Sea, Weather

  "Scrapbook: Stylemakers' Memories" by Genevieve Bahrenburg, www.elle.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

  Tinie Tempah

  Thinking, Fire, House

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• 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 "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

  Peter Weir

  Moving, Feelings, Hollywood

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• 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 think that our quality now is less than it was then.

  Ann Macbeth

  Thinking, Rocks, Quality

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• A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

  Kevin Rudd

  Tears, Narrative, Missions

  Address to the Chifley Research Centre Dinner Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the World's First Majority Labor Government Old Parliament House Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 06, 2010.

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• 2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.

  Kevin Rudd

  Years, Government, Rose

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.

  Judy Davis

  Sexy, Country, Men

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• 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 going to get another job.

  Joel Edgerton

  Brother, Jobs, Squares

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 in the loony bin.

  Desmond Llewelyn

  Father, Games, Watches

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• 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 another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.

  Adam Garcia

  Jobs, Night, Years

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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.

  Andy Gibb

  Years, England, Spain

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• In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

  Stuart Appleby

  College, Airports, America

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to a lot of different high schools. I had quite a sporadic schooling experience. I went to school in England briefly, to boarding school, and I went to a few different ones in Australia as well. I'm really lucky! I have friends in most countries.

  Alice Englert

  Country, School, Different

  "Alice Englert Spills 'Beautiful Creatures' Secrets!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.

  Spike Milligan

  Love You, Heart, Science

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• Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

  James Chanos

  Government, Tails, Excess

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock.

  Anthony Head

  Couple, Rocks, Centre

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• 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 being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

  Thomas Keneally

  Sports, School, Catholic

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• 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 regrets in life.

  Ben Nicholson

  Girl, Regret, School

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• I try to get back to Australia as much as possible.

  Teresa Palmer

  Trying, Get Back

  "Teresa Palmer on ‘I Am Number Four’ sequel and ‘Warm Bodies’ zombie love". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. May 24, 2011.

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• I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

  Margot Robbie

  My Boyfriend, Kind, My Family

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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