Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brookswas an American actress whose three-decade career on stage as well as in films and on television was noted with nominations for an Emmy in 1962 and a Tony in 1970. She was married to author Budd Schulberg...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth29 October 1925
CityNew York City, NY
CountryAustralia
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
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To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
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I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.
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I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.
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The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.