Quote by Geraldine Brooks
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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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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Courage
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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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Imagination
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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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As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear. – David Crystal

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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. – Robert Bly

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dad

You always hear people saying, I hope Im not turning into my dad, but Id be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is. – Johnny Vegas

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dad

When youre shooting a film, you really dont get to be a dad, and you dont really get to be a husband. You dont really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can. – Eric Bana

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dad

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I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. – Tiger Woods

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What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music – participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. – Will Oldham

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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. – Mme. Roland

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Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. – Bobby Darin

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