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Thomas Keneally

"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."

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Donna Grant

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

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Donna Grant

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

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Donna Grant

"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

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Donna Grant

"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."

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Donna Grant

"As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home."

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Donna Grant

"The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church."

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Donna Grant

"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."

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Donna Grant

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

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Donna Grant

"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."

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Donna Grant

"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."

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Thomas Keneally
"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing."

Power

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Thomas Keneally
"So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school."

Being

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Thomas Keneally
"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."

Home

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Thomas Keneally
"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."

Society

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Thomas Keneally
"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."

Writing

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Thomas Keneally
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."

Church

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Thomas Keneally
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."

Travel

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Thomas Keneally
"So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy."

Religion

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Thomas Keneally
"I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers."

Being

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Thomas Keneally
"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."

Christian

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