interview with Olivia over lunch at Shelley Beach, Ballina, NSW
Way back then, did you have any long-term aims about your career? Did you know where you were going, or was it very much that you went with the flow and hoped for the best?
You know, I have trouble remembering what I thought, but I kind of just enjoyed it, I think, and I kind of felt I had some kind of destiny but I didn’t know what it was. So I didn’t feel that there was any urgency. I think every kid feels that, though. I didn’t feel that I had to go after my career, I kind of, in fact, if you ask my friends, I wasn’t at all ambitious. I wanted to have the white picket fence and the dogs and the kids and all that. At one stage. And I really wasn’t that concerned with it, it just kept happening to me. I had very supportive people around me at all times who believed in me and what I was doing.
When I was young, ambition was a dirty word for a woman to have. I remember being out to dinner one night with friends and this guy said that I ambitious, and I was really upset for years about it. It was that symbol of if you were ambitious you were grasping do anything to get places, that was the kind of image that word had in those days if you were a woman, especially from this country. So that kind of freaked me out that someone would think that. And now I think it’s a great thing to be
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