Quote by Geraldine Brooks
My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elabo

My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – 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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Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you cant know it all, and thats where imagination can work. – Geraldine Brooks

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Imagination
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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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My faith doesnt go over real well in Hollywood. – Jim Caviezel

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I die the kings faithful servant, but Gods first. – Thomas More

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I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins

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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. – Matthew Simpson

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[T]he invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. – Wayne Dyer

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Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out. – Humphrey Bogart

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