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Australian Quotes

Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer, and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place. It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful of lies. And all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened. Mark Twain
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing to worry about, and the other half telling you how six months ago their Uncle Bob was driving to Mudgee when a tiger snake slid out from under the dashboard and bit him on the groin, but that it's okay now because he's off the life support machine and they've discovered he can communicate with eye blinks. Bill Bryson
Cathy Freeman quote: "Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention..."
Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me. Cathy Freeman
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. Greg Egan
Harold Edward Holt quote: "Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum..."
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos. Harold Edward Holt
Yahoo Serious quote: "Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things..."
Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey. Yahoo Serious
Fred Schneider quote: "Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour."
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour. Fred Schneider
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. Graham Russell
Charlie Bell quote: "Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really..."
Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are. Charlie Bell
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' Tom Hooper
On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account. Henry Lawson
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. Lionel K. Murphy
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
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face. Phillip Noyce
I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way. Julie Bishop

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