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1. "I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term."
Author: Adelaide Clemens
2. "Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters."
Author: Alexander Downer
3. "...we start the year on the other side of the world, at the Australian Open, and then just chase the sun."
Author: Andre Agassi
4. "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 intriguing."
Author: Barbara Hershey
5. "Colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand."
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
6. "Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia."
Author: Brian Cox
7. "Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much."
Author: Brian Schmidt
8. "The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff."
Author: Callan McAuliffe
9. "(backpacker having conversation with Lizzie the Australian main character)Backpacker: 'What's the drinking age in Australia?''eighteen''is that enforced'Lizzie thought for a second before answering seriously, 'yes, they make us drink"
Author: Catherine Deveny
10. "It was easy not to like the other foreigners. I wondered how I'd fallen in with such a band of freaks. There were so many odd, wandering types--a host of bent Australians, warped British, tainted Canadians, tormented runaway Americans. (I considered myself fairly well balanced among this cast, but then look what became of me.) I'd expected it to a certain degree, but I was still surprised. Most of them seemed like misfits. Only a few content. But all of us found teaching work with astounding ease. It didn't matter that, on the whole, we were ragged and suspect because the demand for English in Korea was so great that almost anyone was accepted."
Author: Cullen Thomas
11. "Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
Author: David Chalmers
12. "The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there."
Author: Deborah Mailman
13. "Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."
Author: Elle Lothlorien
14. "Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that."
Author: Gautam Gambhir
15. "What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English."
Author: Geoffrey Rush
16. "We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians."
Author: Graeme Murphy
17. "Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously."
Author: Hugh Jackman
18. "It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
Author: Hugh Mackay
19. "On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans."
Author: J. Philippe Rushton
20. "I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman."
Author: Jacki Weaver
21. "Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character."
Author: Jacqueline McKenzie
22. "I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest."
Author: Jared Harris
23. "Today is your special day, even if today might be tomorrow to an Australian. And even though you're not Australian, it doesn't negate the fact that today may or may not be tomorrow."
Author: Jarod Kintz
24. "My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian."
Author: Jessica Mauboy
25. "I can hardly understand the Australian accent."
Author: Joey Santiago
26. "The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile."
Author: Julie Bishop
27. "Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot."
Author: Kevin Rudd
28. "Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation."
Author: Kevin Rudd
29. "I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian."
Author: Liev Schreiber
30. "The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down."
Author: Lionel Murphy
31. "Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."
Author: Malcolm Fraser
32. "And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?"
Author: Matt Haig
33. "I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa."
Author: Mem Fox
34. "I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people."
Author: Neil Diamond
35. "As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup."
Author: Nick Cave
36. "People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly."
Author: P.J. O'Rourke
37. "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, and I call on the people to throw them out."
Author: Pauline Hanson
38. "I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian."
Author: Phillip Noyce
39. "The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas."
Author: Quentin Bryce
40. "I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?"
Author: Rachel Griffiths
41. "For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."
Author: Radha Mitchell
42. "It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home."
Author: Randa Abdel Fattah
43. "Flight 2039 to Boston is now boarding at gate 14A," a voice announced over the PA system.Nellie sighed. "I love Irish accents." She paused. "And Australian accents. And English accents." A dreamy look came over her face. "Theo had an awesome accent."Dan snorted. "Yeah, there was just that one tiny problem. He turned out to be a two-timing, backstabbing thief."
Author: Rick Riordan
44. "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."
Author: Ricky Ponting
45. "Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro."
Author: Roland Merullo
46. "That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long."
Author: Samantha Stosur
47. "Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.)"
Author: Shirley Hazzard
48. "I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian."
Author: Steve Irwin
49. "You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."
Author: Steve Irwin
50. "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 good dirty joke, you know."
Author: Thomas Keneally
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