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Small: I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I dont use - words that have specific, sharp, focused
"I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to
"Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to"
Stuart Appleby, Athlete
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Small: I die in almost every film Ive been in
"I die in almost every film I've been in"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare
"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage"
Morris West, Writer
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Small: Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God ins
"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
Morris West, Writer
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Small: Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him -
"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things"
Morris West, Writer
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Small: I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish nationa
"I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it"
Edmund Barton, Politician
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Small: The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on
"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through"
Morris West, Writer
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Small: None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness whats going on in the world in this
"None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature"
Morris West, Writer
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Small: The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Sec
"The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except ou
"Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people"
Henry Lawson, Writer
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Small: Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, Im
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know"
Henry Lawson, Writer
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Small: Well, Im at some kind of crossroads in my life and I dont know which way to take. Its not about money, I mean,
Helen Garner
"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction"
Helen Garner, Novelist
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Small: Its disturbing at my age to look at a young womans destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of ones ow
Helen Garner
"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth"
Helen Garner, Novelist
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Small: My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation
"My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more susp
"Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David
"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democ
"I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and
"At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions
"Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had l
"I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter
"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter"
Luke Ford, Writer
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Small: The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, des
"The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future"
Henry Lawson, Writer
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Small: And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right,
"And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society"
Henry Lawson, Writer
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Small: Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf.
"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: Someone told me that theres a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, To
"Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. Im not daunted by the tr
"My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britains greatest comic actor. The fans of
"I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: I asked, What is this guy? They said, hes part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you dont have to go
"I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have
"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it"
Geoffrey Rush, Actor
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Small: The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching
Helen Garner
"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching"
Helen Garner, Novelist
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Small: Thats one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque
Helen Garner
"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque"
Helen Garner, Novelist
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Small: I think some people wished Id kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reade
Helen Garner
"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually"
Helen Garner, Novelist
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Small: We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full
Helen Garner
"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as"
Helen Garner, Novelist
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Small: At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society
Helen Garner
"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society"
Helen Garner, Novelist
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Small: You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of
"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage"
Morris West, Writer
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Small: If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, youll never enjoy the sunshine
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine"
Morris West, Writer
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Small: If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, n
"If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided"
Edmund Barton, Politician
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Small: The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods
Catherine Helen Spence
"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods"
Catherine Helen Spence, Author
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Small: Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take wi
Catherine Helen Spence
"Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria"
Catherine Helen Spence, Author
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