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Helen Garner Quotes

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Justice People System Things Demand

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

People Situation Status Quo Status

I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

Unhappy Television Play Transgender

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

Growth Tax Irish Economy Taxes Low

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

Learning Loneliness Me Nobody More

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Famous You Transition Actor Kid Get

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

Work You Become Celebrity Need Very

I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.

Morning Matter Up Somewhere Going

My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.

Good Dedication Think Friends Trying

I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

Way Angels Along Been Far Made

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Chuck Palahniuk

Men Me Story Look Young Nowhere

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

William Lashner

Trust Words You Back Television Go

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

Age Lord Rings Well Eight About

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