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335 Australian Quotes

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Australia Entrenched Long Tradition
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Australians Entertainers Events Great
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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Adventure Embark Glorious Great
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
Form Going Ideas Life
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

About Decision Make Really
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I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound leve

Always Deprivation Got Kids
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You can't really achieve anything in three years.
Achieve Anything Really Three
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

Audience Course Courting Different
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It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Age Because Been Death
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I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

Actress Always Certainly Direct
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I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities.

Bottled BottledWater Communities Drinking
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My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Always Beauty Everyday Pretty
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I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.

Great IThink Keeps Pilates
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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Anyone AnyoneElse Else Live
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I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.
Characters Interested Particularly Playing
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Failure Other Running Than
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I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Always Bigger First Good
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Added Change Couple Eventually
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Best Come Did Ever
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Asked Because Bloody Get
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Always Artist Artistic Duty
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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Always Art Beautiful Compliment
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I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

About Any Belief Believe
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

Between Concentration Difference Feel
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I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Above Always Creation Had
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I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Art ArtForm Bad Changed
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I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Against Head Imagination Lack
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To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
Get Going How Idea
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Anymore Artistic Communal Corporate
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If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.

Bad BadThings Beautiful Children
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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Career Extend Fresh Keep
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

After Back Because Better
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Always Been Electric Fighting
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I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

Hugely Morning Self-Critical
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Full Know Levels Many
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It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.

Fruitful Get Life Live
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Believe Book Certain CertainThings
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One of my big fears is drying up, and the more I create, the more I feel myself shrinking beneath the backlog of work I've done.

Beneath Big Create Done
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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Anxiety Deep Funny FunnyStuff
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I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

Catalog Just Leave Massive
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Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
Anything Doing Inspiration People
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With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

Always Back Barrel Bottom
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Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

American Change Collateral Damage
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I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.
Always Felt Like Musician
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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Always Charts Just Number
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Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

Australian Greatest GreatestThing Happened
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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Also Background Education Family
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I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Call Interviews Japan Japanese
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When you're on your own, you have all the self-censorship that everybody has when they try and write. All the little voices that say, 'No, you can't write that, what will they think of that?'

Everybody Little Own Say
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It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
Always Australia Back Come
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