And I was very interested in the priesthood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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