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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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"The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time."
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"There is a fire that burns in soul."
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"With the strength of grace, we can survive any situation."
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"Words are forces of life."
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"We are sustained by God's mighty power."
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"You ought to find all your might, to climb a higher height."
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"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power."
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"You are the creator of your universe, and you are the destroyer of it too."
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"Rise in mighty strength and live your dream."
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"The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into the darkest mysteries and secrets of the universe."
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"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."
Family
"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
"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
Christian
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
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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."
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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."
Power
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
Church
"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
"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his."
Time
"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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