Quote by Geraldine Brooks
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking th

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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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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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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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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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. – Sarah Fielding

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Love doesnt grow on trees like apples in Eden – its something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too. – Joyce Cary

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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. – Robert Fitzgerald

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Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times its just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character. – Joaquin Phoenix

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All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays… a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. – Jesse Ventura

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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. – Ed Howe

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You dont have to be a wreck. You dont have to be sick. Ones aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. – Jeanne Moreau

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I dont want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I dont want to be controlled by the U.S. – Muqtada al Sadr

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