Geraldine Brooks Quotes
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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Good music makes you feel something.
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.
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I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it.
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Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.
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Eventually, while researching, you'll learn something you didn't want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The good news is that sometimes, learning all the facts can make for a much more interesting story than you originally had in mind.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
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To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
