#australian

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

#australians #energy #find #humour #i

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ↗

— Jonathan Aitken

#bet #fair #find #glass #hand

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me! ↗

— Dorothea Mackellar

#australian #poetry #beauty

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#australian-literature #friendship #literature #modernism #nastiness

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song ↗

— Christine M. Knight

#from- #life

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#australian #award #boomerang #i #i always

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#i #open #something #special #takes

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back. ↗

— Anthony LaPaglia

#australian #back #coach #could #get

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

— Craig Ferguson

#awful #having #idea #just #me

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! ↗

— David Chalmers

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