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• I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing – we are quite self-deprecating, we’re light-hearted and can have a laugh.

  Teresa Palmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Australian, Humour

• On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I’ve definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube – before, you couldn’t tell.

  Imogen Heap

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  Tags in Australian, Definitely

• The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Idea, Australian

• Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Young, Australian

• The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, – is fine wool.

  Charles Sturt

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  Tags in Production, Australian

• I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

  Colleen McCullough

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  Tags in Political, Things, Australian

• You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it’s because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Topics in Country

  Tags in People, American, Australian

• 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.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Australian

• Hollywood is the place to be for actors – and there’s just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there’s less of them. I guess that’s just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it’d be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.

  Callan McAuliffe

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  Tags in Hollywood, Actor, Australian

• I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I’m 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

  Cathy Freeman

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  Tags in Olympics, Australian

• So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

  Patricia Hewitt

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  Tags in People, Australian

• I feel like I’ve been marinated in Australian theatre.

  Cate Blanchett

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  Tags in Feel, Theatre, Australian

• You know, I’m Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

  Steve Irwin

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  Tags in Australian, Worst

• I’m a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

  Steve Irwin

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  Tags in Australian, Proud

• My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

  Walter Kohn

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  Tags in Australian, War

• I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

  Paul Keating

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  Tags in Australian

• The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

  Paul Theroux

  Tags in Etiquette, Australian

• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

  Yahoo Serious

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  Tags in Thousand, Film, Australian, Untold, Weird

• Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it’s hard for me then God help everyone else.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Box, Finance, Office, Australian, Hard, Help

• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we’d just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we’re such an amazing race.

  Yahoo Serious

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  Tags in Media, Cultural, Tribe, Force, Australian