Geraldine Brooks Quotes

If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion.

Geraldine Brooks

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Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Robert Sheckley

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I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

Jeff Ament

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I have no plans to go public if I get into a relationship. I will do my best to safeguard the privacy of the person I love and respect her feelings.

Song Joong-ki

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I like to be able to go out to dinner once in a while. I like to be able to drive my MG up the McKenzie River on a weekday afternoon. I like to be able to pay my bills on time.

Steve Prefontaine

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Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Robert Baden-Powell

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Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Rita Ora

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The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Martina Navratilova

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I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

Miley Cyrus

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Reed Richards in 'Fantastic Four,' to me, was a huge character departure from, like, 'That Awkward Moment' or anything that I'd just done before that.

Miles Teller

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I used to watch a programme about Route 66 in America, and it looked so fun.

Jorja Smith

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People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Dolly Parton

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You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Chris Hughes

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