Quotes by australian authors

It's nice being married to somebody who thinks you've got something better in you. Essie Davis

You Better Somebody Nice Married Something Got Being Who Thinks

Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting. Essie Davis

Part Exciting Being Ceremony Less Even Oscars

I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not. Essie Davis

Different Kinds Kinds Some Mistaken Get Often Different Flattering Them Ages

I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music. Flea

Music Me Discipline Path Sense Believe Gave Focused One Thing Something Disaster Led Self-Worth The One Thing Really Thing Kept

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. Flea

History Science Important Kids Athletics Math Just Arts English Deserve

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to. Flea

Life Music My Life Band Living Wanted Dedicated Play

Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place. Flea

Beautiful Great Country Great Country Beautiful Place Place Ethiopia

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about. Flea

It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else. Flea

I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.' Flea

Love Music Home You Animal People Down Lying Kids Gig Entertaining Entertaining People Point Town Like Another Got Rocking Ceiling Want After Certain Certain Point Dad Staring Playing

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. Flea

Love Jazz Musician Stepfather Got Jazz Musician Who

After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way. Flea

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. Flea

Good Enough Our Songs Improbability Improvisation Being Apparatus Serve Playing

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am. Flea

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up. Flea

Old Jazz Years Trumpet Up Wanted Grew Player Started Playing

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. Flea

Music School Big Run Parent Exercise Career

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor. Flea

Thought Pretty Terrible Always Actor

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive. Flea

Education Money Increased Else More Put Towards Happen Anything Anything Else Cut Should Thing Funding Last Need