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No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands. Then learn to live without your hands. No, because then we won't be able to do this, Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
Giving
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Learn
Hands
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Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.
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Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.
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She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.
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Play me something that makes me feel This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring Take me places that make more sense.
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I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!
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I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.
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And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.
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In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.
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I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.
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Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.
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If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
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We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility I've just never had to practise it.
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We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, she told him once. I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.
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It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.
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Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.
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City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
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So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.
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Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
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A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.
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There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.’ ‘Oh the poor animal,’ she cried out, ‘they’re such beautiful creatures.’ ‘I’m speaking of the royal seal placed on correspondence, as you would know,’ he said.
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