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Quote by Geraldine Brooks
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Satu

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. – Geraldine Brooks

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You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks

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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. – Geraldine Brooks

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I liked a lot of the things other people liked – Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC – but if I compared it to my dads music, there just seemed to be elements missing. – Dweezil Zappa

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I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. Im acting. Its always, When I say youll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!? Then, Yeah, Dad. – Liam Neeson

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My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didnt even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it. – Slash

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A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We dont isolate the family. We dont make rides that say, Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench. – Michael Eisner

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To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer. – Dan Rather

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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. – Hart Crane

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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. – Sally Ride

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Were musicians. We make music for a living. Its that simple. Nothing else matters. – Eddie Van Halen

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