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I don't care what my friends think. You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

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Melina Marchetta
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 25
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Carmelina Marchetta
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A home to come back to every day of their lives. Where they would all belong or long to be. A place on the Jellicoe Road.
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I'm scared to die, I whispered as Michael walked in. He was scared to live, he said kissing my forehead.
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Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question. 'Are you alone?' he asks quietly. He hears her breathing so close to his ear. 'Yes.' 'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.
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She misses him more now than when he was away
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She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.
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It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.
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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
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No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.
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There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
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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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I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.
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Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.
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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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What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love? she asked quietly. Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury, he said fiercely. I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.
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I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.
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Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.
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I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it. But she's crying herself now. He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.
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Because being part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.
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God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.
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