Carpentaria Quotes & Sayings

I think people of lesser talent will become stars. — Howard Stern

Where is the harm in the wireless industry? — Steve Largent

I'll bet you could make a woman throw out all her toys — Larissa Ione

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. — Steven Spielberg

I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone in my bedroom and on the one in the kitchen. Then I typed out two labels and taped them to the handsets. "It's an opportunity, not an attack," they read. — Alice Sebold

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking. — Alexis Wright

I am not a philosopher; my life is my philosophy. — Debasish Mridha

Spectators could, for an additional fee, sit on the stage - something not permitted at the Globe. With stage seating, audience members could show off their finery to maximum effect, and the practice was lucrative; but it contained an obvious risk of distraction. Stephen Greenblatt relates an occasion in which a nobleman who had secured a perch on the stage spied a friend entering across the way and strode through the performance to greet him. When rebuked by an actor for his thoughtlessness, the nobleman slapped the impertinent fellow and the audience rioted. — Bill Bryson