Geraldine Brooks Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

TruthHeartJobKindStorytelling

When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'

Angela Duckworth

PeopleMeI CanSayYesTell

I have to admit that most of what I wear on the daily is all black.

Jeffree Star

DailyBlackAdmitWearMost

Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

Michael Greger

DayWalkingExerciseLevelPace

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Amy Lee

WorkLoveTeacherWantWouldKids

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

Steve Ballmer

CompetitionRememberYouGotIntense

I prefer writing originals.

Tony Gilroy

WritingPreferOriginals

When you travel across London, it can take two hours to get from one end of London to the other, when it actually takes me two hours to get up to Leicester.

Tom Hopper

TravelMeEndYouLondonUp

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Drew Barrymore

FamilyMeDinnerGrowFeelPlan

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

Deborah Norville

LifePositiveChildrenMomentsOut

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

Boots Riley

LifeMusicPeopleIdeasWorldSong

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

Ariel Levy

GriefWalkWorldYouThrough

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