. . . photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.
Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.
The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia’s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.
Men do not fail; they give up trying.