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Helen Garner Quotes

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: November 7, 1942

Topics

Job College Degree Arts Get Only

My grandfather died under house arrest.

House Grandfather Arrest Died

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

Walk You Places Away Pick

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Practice Democracy Rise Principle

I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.

Father Football Loved Play Old Just

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

Good Time Important Timing Ahead

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

Michelle Alexander

True Crime Driven Greatest Myth

Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.

People Gift Laugh You Greatest Gift

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Dimebag Darrell

Music Day Chill End Of The Day End

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

Work Conflict Measure Tragedy Tribe

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

People Me Play Nothing Audience

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Life Race Real Existence Individual

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