Quotes and Sayings About Australia
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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 -
Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
-- Adelaide Clemens -
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
-- Adrian McKinty -
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 -
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
-- Andre Benjamin -
It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.
-- Andrew Bogut -
Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
-- Andrew Bogut -
Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
-- Andrew Forrest -
Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
-- Andrew Forrest -
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.
-- Andrew Strauss -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
-- Ava Gardner -
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.
-- Barack Obama -
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
-- Barack Obama -
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.
-- Barbara Hershey -
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else
-- Barry Gibb -
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development.
-- Barry Humphries -
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow
-- Ben Chifley -
Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
-- Bill Shorten -
I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that there were plans for a movie, I went for it. That was in 1987 and I told (producer) Graham Burke I was going to be the Phantom. We had a laugh about that recently because you usually get what you deserve, not what you desire, and that is especially true in Hollywood!
-- Billy Zane -
There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
-- Bob Brown -
Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
-- Bob Brown -
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 abroad.
-- Bob Hawke -
I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.
-- Bon Scott -
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 couple of months.
-- Brandon Routh
