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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old a

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. – 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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Religion
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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow. – Geraldine Brooks

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Fear
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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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Im left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed. – Dustin Diamond

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Babies dont need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. – Amy Heckerling

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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughters life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. – Samuel L. Jackson

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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. – Rainn Wilson

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley

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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties. – Terri Guillemets

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