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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Quotes By Geraldine Brooks
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You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental...
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual...
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There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit...
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are...
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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer I walked...
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old...
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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw...
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Both my mum and dad were great readers and we would go every Saturday...
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the...
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Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is...
Quotes About Courage
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I want to encourage our people to educate our people to have the courage to...
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and...
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting I wouldn't have got...
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which...
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There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
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To him that waits all things reveal themselves provided that he has the...
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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you...
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I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and...
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Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery - courage in escaping...