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I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane. — Kristin Davis

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. — Thomas Keneally

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake. — Thomas Keneally

Consider your life your personal currency-and invest it wisely. — Debra Ollivier

The List is Life.", Schindler's List — Thomas Keneally

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. — Thomas Keneally

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible. — Thomas Keneally

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. — Thomas Keneally

Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves. — Thomas Keneally

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael. — Thomas Keneally

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels. — Thomas Keneally

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular. — Thomas Keneally

Personal finances are like people's personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. — Thomas Keneally

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. — Napoleon Hill

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. — Nelson Mandela

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head. — Khaled Hosseini

It is possible to get what you want in life, you must work for it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. — Andre Gide

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. — Thomas Keneally

Beauty is the lover's gift. — William Congreve

All right, Herr Stern, if God made man in His image, which race is most like him? Is a Pole more like him than a Czech? — Thomas Keneally

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows. — Thomas Keneally

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't — Thomas Keneally

Every time some [developer] says, 'Nobody will go to the trouble of doing that,' there's some kid in Finland who will go to the trouble. — Kevin D. Mitnick

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. — Thomas Keneally

FORGET THE CHICKEN-NUGGET SMOKE SCREEN. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat. That night he had horrible nightmares. — Rick Riordan

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs. — Thomas Keneally

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. — Thomas Keneally

Coitus is random, children are definite. — Thomas Keneally

He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness. — Thomas Keneally

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue. — Thomas Keneally

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf. — Thomas Keneally

And I was very interested in the priesthood. — Thomas Keneally

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally

The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is. — Thomas Keneally

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. — Thomas Keneally