“I think when you grow up - cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse y...” — Gina Rinehart Quote

I think when you grow up - cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse yourselves... you know, the importance of work - I think these are benefits that I've had.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.

It really helps me if I think back to what our first families up here went through because, my goodness, they really had very tough times.

Roy Hill had to achieve more than 4,000 approvals, permits, and licences and more again for construction. The delays and costs of this were not only humungous and waste of human resources but did nothing to assist productivity.

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

I had the great good fortune to have Chuck Jones as a mentor and one of my first questions to him, was who did they make Bugs Bunny for? They never made the shows for kids. They made them to amuse themselves.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.