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Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a

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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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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Faith
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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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Geraldine Brooks
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – Geraldine Brooks

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Courage
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Imagination
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. Im kind of fascist with myself, you know. Theres no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Imagination

Its just a way of trying to get to a third thing thats not particular to any quote-unquote genre. Its been great for me its really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. Its very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting. – Charlie Hunter

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Imagination

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving

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Imagination

Usually I say I have no imagination. – Jose Padilha

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Imagination

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Its just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. Youve gotta trust evolution, youve gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you dont need to force the bar. Itll just happen. – Johnny Knoxville

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