Australian Quotes

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.