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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.
Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.
I think the Australian men and American men are quite different. I feel like Australian men might be a little bit more laid back and a little bit cool whereas American guys are sort of 'boom, boom, boom.'
I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.
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.
I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
You mustn't judge Australia by the Australians.
For an American, though, Australia seems pretty familiar: same wide streets, same office towers. It's Canada in a thong, or that's the initial impression.
I can hardly understand the Australian accent.
I'm not an austere person.
I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.
I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.
In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.
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.
In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.
In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.
I support all Australian films.
Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.
I'm an all-American girl.
Australia is just so full of surprises.
Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.
My mind may be American but my heart is British.
If you think about the map of Europe with Italy and Germany and Spain and all the different people and cultures, well, Australia is like that. And the white people from England, they are like a lot of noisy, angry visitors on a holiday that never really ends,' Mary giggles to herself
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.
Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do.
I love the British.
Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.
My best friend was Aboriginal.
Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people.
Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
I do greatly admire Australian artists.
Are all Aussies like you?"
"Are all Canadians like you?
I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?
I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.
Another Country,
I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.
Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.
Australia! Australians! Surely it's still full of Magwitch-types, lumbering oafs with shaven pates and broken noses on the run from whatever law there is, chucking kangaroo heads on the barbie as they read their awful bush poetry.
I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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.
Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?
I don't think Australians ever use a couple of words when twenty will do just fine.
We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.
My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.
I remind my American readers that biscuits in England and Australia are crispy flat things such as you call cookies, and the soft doughy things you call biscuits are what we call scones. And they say we speak the same language ...
It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.
I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.
It occurred to me that Australians are so surrounded with danger that they have evolved an entirely new vocabulary to deal with it.
There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
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.
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.
If a British guy saw someone at the wheel of a Rolls- Royce, he'd say 'come the revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate', where the American would say 'one day I'll have one of those, when I have worked hard enough'. It's unfortunate we Australians inherited the British mentality.
I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.
With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
I'm as American as Chevrolet.
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.
I think I'll move to Australia.
I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.
I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.
The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
Australian weather's amazing! You notice that when you go overseas.
Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.
I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!
I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?
To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.
I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
I am who I am, a Southie.
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.
My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
This is not a book about Australia. No, it's about somewhere entirely different which happens to be, here and there, a bit ... Australian. Still ... no worries, right?