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"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."
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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."
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"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."
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"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
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"Positive life, positive action."
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"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."
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"One of the man's major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God hasdominion over the universe."
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"You can break through every barrier with persistent effort."
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"You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage."
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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."
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"You can rise above any situation and achieve your dreams."
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"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know."
Hell
"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
Thought
"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."
Family
"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest."
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"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left."
Want
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
Design
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
Church
"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."
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"And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind."
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"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
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