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.
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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Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through...
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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 Dad
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To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends and now I'm...
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My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor...
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Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I...
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I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire....
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You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave...
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I lost my mother who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and we had to...
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They...
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I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of...
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My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology...
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My dad like many Southern men is this very emotionally expressive person...