Geraldine Brooks Quotes

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

Geraldine Brooks

• Imagination
• Records
• Fiction
• Historical
• Factual

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• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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  • Old
  • Fast

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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  • You
  • Looks

• A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
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• Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
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  • Desire
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• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
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  • Appreciation
  • Acceptance

• I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.

  

  Natasha Little
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  • Part

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Live
  • Theater
  • Substitute

• Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Night
  • Day

• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Fear
  • Hurt
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• He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  

  Arnold Bennett
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• One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Faith

• I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Anxiety

• I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Work
  • Political
  • Universe

• I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I'll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I love television because it's the most alive, because you don't know how it's going to end. It's a living thing. Sometimes the writers are watching you to see how things will unfold. Sometimes the writers have written it, and you come to it, and they have to change their way of going because of what you've done.

  

  Margo Martindale
  • Done

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• My older son asked me yesterday.."Father, can you teach me how to play drums"...What a feeling. :) The disease has spread I guess...

  

  Kai Hahto Nightwish
  • Feeling
  • Play
  • Son

• I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

  

  Michael Welch
  • Story
  • Seriously

• Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.

  

  James Stockdale
  • King
  • March

• The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

  

  Geraldine Brooks
  • Imagination
  • Records
  • Fiction