A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
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I wanted my children to grow up in Australia, and if I have anything to pass on to them as a parent as a mentor, it is my own experiences of having grown up there, and shaped a career there.
Richard Mowe, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Eye For Film, 6 July 2022 source ↗
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Resilience, courage and kindness, as compassionate points to follow.
Nina Riggs
Poet and essayist
So maybe I don’t try to figure it out. Maybe I just aim to get the couch right: strong bones, high-quality leather, something earthy and animal and real. A surface that knows something of what it was to be alive, that warms to our touch and cools in our absence. Also: an expansive bench that fits all of us. Something that will hold us through everything that lies ahead — the loving, collapsing and nuzzling. The dying, the grieving.
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View profile →My own snoring.
Absence of lower back pain.
During my Queensland childhood, on the days when I avoided the chlorine-infused shower gauntlet and being corralled into the deep end of the school pool.
My mum beautifully embraced and encouraged the unpredictability of my wayward career.
A painting of the late actor Bille Brown by Australian artist Ben Quilty, to commemorate decades of fraternal and professional bonds.
When Adèle walked down the road at the end of the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
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