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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and then the township we lived in. I wasn't going to settle for that, and my mother warned us not to settle for less, to make the most of our lives.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen myself as a spokesperson. I've always seen myself as a worker and am very grateful for the trust that my own people have given me over the years.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.
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- Nov 07, 2020