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I let my initial stance on her prettiness stand and didn't let any superficial thoughts hobble it. — S.A. Tawks

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic. — S.A. Tawks

I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money. — S.A. Tawks

Doesn't she understand that a key factor to learning is the want to learn? — S.A. Tawks

Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her. — S.A. Tawks

The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S. — Gerry Harvey

After going to Australia, it's hard to go anywhere after that. I want to move there. I'm obsessed with it. — Nina Dobrev

So much to do but so many incompetent workers," I said, playing to his take-no-shit-get-in-and-fucking-do-it attitude. — S.A. Tawks

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. — Malcolm Turnbull

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother. — S.A. Tawks

I think the last thing you should do to someone willing to put your penis in their mouth is give them criticism. — S.A. Tawks

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy. — Kevin Rudd

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century. — Anthony Pratt

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to. — Pat Oliphant

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

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on. — S.A. Tawks

I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia. — Elle Macpherson

There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be. — S.A. Tawks

It was my duty as a mother to invade your privacy and search your room. I'm just glad you weren't hiding an illegal drug. — S.A. Tawks

What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me? — S.A. Tawks

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy. — S.A. Tawks

It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice. — Brett Lee

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. — Nick Cave

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor. — Kevin Rudd

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five. — Guy Pearce

Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing. — S.A. Tawks

The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome. — S.A. Tawks

I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia; it's such a good lifestyle. — Margot Robbie

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. — Nellie Melba

If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage. — Gerry Harvey

there's nothing scarier than silent Italians; it's unnatural — Joe Novella

It's always nice to come home and work in Australia with friends I've known since I started. — Alyssa Sutherland

I have friends who come to the Australia Zoo, and it's just, instead of playing video games, we get to hug and kiss a giraffe or walk a tiger. — Bindi Irwin

In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined. — Bindi Irwin

The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it. — S.A. Tawks

A boy, Ranga, is tomorrow's world the day after tomorrow. — Ian B.G. Burns

This is a profligate prison for us all, it's a hellish hole we soldiers have been hauled to because they blame us for losing the war in America. — Timberlake Wertenbaker

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture. — Emily Browning

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first. — S.A. Tawks

The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you. — S.A. Tawks

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them. — Lucy Christopher

Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down. — S.A. Tawks

Your days are only important if you decide to make them important. — S.A. Tawks

We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations. — S.A. Tawks

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money. — Germaine Greer

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts. — Tanc Sade

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real. — S.A. Tawks

As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died. — S.A. Tawks

My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble. — S.A. Tawks

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded. — S.A. Tawks

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me. — S.A. Tawks

Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it. — S.A. Tawks

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant. — S.A. Tawks

Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me. — S.A. Tawks

Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow. — S.A. Tawks

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances. — S.A. Tawks

They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism. — S.A. Tawks

I wasn't pissed off; I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created. — S.A. Tawks

Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development. — Barry Humphries

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy. — Robin Boyd

It's a very open-armed experience in Australia - you feel immediately welcomed - I felt being here for three months - honoured, delighted, proud. — Tom Parker Bowles

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me. — Michael Robotham

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards. — S.A. Tawks

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is. — Ricki-Lee Coulter

A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting. — S.A. Tawks

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society. — Barry O'Farrell

The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again. — S.A. Tawks

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care. — S.A. Tawks

Misadventure was my primary compass and I followed it without caring if I pissed off one person or a whole bunch of people. — S.A. Tawks

People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough. — S.A. Tawks

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves. — S.A. Tawks

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands. — S.A. Tawks

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are. — Ethel Turner

At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland. — S.A. Tawks

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe. — Rachel Ward

Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone. — S.A. Tawks

I found that disturbing the night's calm ambience was almost as gratifying as the ambience itself. — S.A. Tawks

She suggested I buy her a drink. I shouldn't have, but I was quite drunk and she was quite pretty. — S.A. Tawks

It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked. — S.A. Tawks

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf — Harold Larwood

Besides the gifts, the only thing that gave the headstones colour were the memories family and friends had of the people they represented. — S.A. Tawks

When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians. — Noel Pearson

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth. — S.A. Tawks

Time is wasted on the young and experience is wasted on the old. — S.A. Tawks

Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me. — S.A. Tawks

I've been to Australia several times, and I just like the earthiness; it's part of the culture. That's a really good vibe to be around. — Erin Heatherton

Where's your sense of misadventure? — S.A. Tawks

I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia. — Tommy Lasorda

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges. — S.A. Tawks

My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan. — S.A. Tawks

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot ... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside. — Peter Temple

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep. — S.A. Tawks

My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job! — Liane Moriarty

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. — Barry Humphries

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia. — Cate Blanchett

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could. — S.A. Tawks

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer. — John Howard

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways. — S.A. Tawks

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S. — Gillian Armstrong