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Helen Garner

"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."

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Amber Hurdle

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."

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Amber Hurdle

"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."

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Amber Hurdle

"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."

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Amber Hurdle

"I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome."

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Amber Hurdle

"I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly."

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Amber Hurdle

"You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college."

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Amber Hurdle

"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."

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Amber Hurdle

"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun."

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Amber Hurdle

"At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings."

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Helen Garner
"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."

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Helen Garner
"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque."

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Helen Garner
"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."

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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."

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Helen Garner
"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."

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Helen Garner
"I like poking my nose into other people's lives."

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Helen Garner
"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life."

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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."

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Helen Garner
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."

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Helen Garner
"I think writers are very anxious."

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