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
writing simple men
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.
men poverty aptitude
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
men class doubt
If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.
fear men imagination
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
attitude men mind
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
exist laid line structure within women
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.
ardent decision moral people quaker town
Being a quaker town, where people were ardent abolitionists, but were still enmeshed in the confederacy, that kind of moral decision ... the people in that town were the inspiration.
bit great imagination stories work
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
imagination void wonderful
That was a wonderful void to let imagination work.
generally spent time worse
I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
hand holding lived owned thinking
I was holding this thing in my hand and thinking 'Who owned this? Was it someone who lived in this house?
believe change heart human material matter move remains time together
One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time.
cross found less notebook street
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.
fancy fostered fourth grade happier home mum school settled sort third until
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.