Quotes about australia
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It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. Peter Singer
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The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.' Ben Mendelsohn
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I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.
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When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out. Maurice Gibb
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There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium. Bob Brown
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We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?' Anna Torv
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We are confident that the DP World purchase will ensure that our operations continue to meet all relevant standards in the U.S. through ongoing collaboration between the port operators and American, British, Australian and port security officials throughout the world.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life. Wayne Swan
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I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music. Andy Gibb
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Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
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They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.
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We do clearly want to send a message to would-be illegal operators that it is simply not worth your while to come into Australian waters and fish illegally,
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We don't know how many of those people are Australian citizens, we don't know how much longer than three weeks they were detained.
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We want to make sure that Australian cricket fans make up the majority of the crowd.
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We are making tough decisions to turn the corner on Australian Paper in this depressed environment.
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It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing. Dannii Minogue
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I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know.
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I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.
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I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.
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It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys and three girls and we made thirteen episodes that were sold in the United States and Canada.
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Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.
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I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I'm not doing this to get somewhere else. I'm doing it because I'm doing it.'
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There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia. Kevin Rudd
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Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.
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You don't only just use your voice, you use support form the lungs and diaphragm and everything gets old, whether you like it or not. Joan Sutherland
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To beat Australia you need to have a good team performance but you also need individual brilliance, Michael Vaughan
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I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American. Soledad O'Brien
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money. Adam Garcia
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When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing. Adrian McKinty
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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. Bruce Beresford
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When David returned from Hong Kong, I told him I wanted to help him get back to the top here so I would give him the best two-year-old in Australia in Miss Finland.
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I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like. Shari Sebbens
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Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights. Shinzo Abe