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“When does relaxing turn into living? How can you call it relaxing when that is all you are doing?”

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Book:Mule

Source: Mule

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

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Book:Mule

Source: Mule

“A lemon tree was nearly universal; other trees varied with climate - almond trees in Adelaide and Perth, plums and apples in Melbourne, choke vines and bananas in Sydney and Brisbane, a mango in Cairns, figs and loquats everywhere. For a few weeks, there was a gross overabundance of fruit and much trading ('I'll take some of your plums if you take some of my apples next month').”

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Author:George Seddon

“After all, they have as much right to live there as we have.”

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Book:That Was My Home: Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs

Source: That Was My Home: Voices from the Noongar Camps in Fremantle and the Western Suburbs

“I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.”

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Author:George Brandis

“My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as I want to be a part of the community and be a citizen.”

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Author:Kevin Wall

“Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?”

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Author:Clive Palmer

“The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.”

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Author:Ted Koppel

“Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.”

Messages Down And Wine Drinking Bottles Avoiding Sparkling Laying Down Perth

Author:Eric Idle

“I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!”

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Author:Jackie Collins

“If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.”

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Author:Trevor Nisbett

“When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.”

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Author:James D'arcy