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I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life it'd drive me crazy.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about but you can't know it all and that's where imagination can work.
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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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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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 Imagination
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
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With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love...
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character...
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer...
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the...