Geraldine Brooks Quotes

Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

Geraldine Brooks

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PowerLightCandleCircumstances

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Matthew Simpson

TruthConflictWrongHumanRight

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Ann Cotton

EducationLeadershipWomenTeamEye

When times are tough, we tend to outperform as margins increase.

Ana Patricia Botin

ToughMarginsIncreaseTendTimes

On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped them become global superstars.

Troy Carter

BeginningArtistYoungInvestment

All standards are double standards.

Tucker Carlson

StandardsDouble

The most powerful thing in politics is voter-to-voter contact. People take in ideas and formulate opinions by contact with other people they perceive to be trustworthy - other voters, people from their communities.

Tom Steyer

PoliticsPeopleIdeasPowerfulTake

Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are 'efficient,' who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us?

Matt Bellamy

AgePeopleWinRestAmericaCost

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

Christopher Walken

AmazingYouDialogueTellMost

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

Courtney A. Kemp

MusicPowerHip-HopIndustryShow

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.

Chuck Norris

KnowledgeFoodFaceProcessPossible

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Arthur Keith

FreeFree WillWillTribeOwn

I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.

Mustard

PeopleThinkI CanJust BecauseWant

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