"And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly."

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Robert Helpmann

#Country Quotes #Art Quotes #Eye Quotes

“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
“Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.”
“The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing.”
“I learned if you have $100 or $100 million - if you spend more than you have, youâ€™re going to go broke.”
“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

Source : Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.36, Univ of California Press
“I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to "Air America," down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.”
“Ask a footballer what they can cook and they always say spaghetti. It is what you reach for when there is nothing else left in the larder. It's poor people's food and it's unsophisticated. It's the same as bread - you just boil it instead of putting it in the oven.”
“You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure..”

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