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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood. Barry Marshall

Age Mother Car Reading Nursing Books Born Through Had He Boundless Well Always Making Encouraged Curiosity Suspect Childhood Eight Explained Engine Many Dad Technical Medical

My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in. Barry Marshall

Funny You People Mother Made Nurse Funny Things Once Mustard Brought Proper Cough Had Knees Put Most Understood Era Were Chest Very Did Diseases Tuberculosis Difference Little Really Your Plaster Her Things Treatments

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892. Barry Marshall

East Mining Rush Born Struck Town Prosperous Western Up Australia Irishman Gold After Which Miles Desert

My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects. Barry Marshall

War Family Book World Old Before Our Projects Chapters Out Would Favourite Seeing Brothers Had Pick Volume Bought Boy How Were Child Donated Just Children After Which Interested Interesting Grandfather Special Each Things World War World War II

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. Barry Marshall

Country Other Prestige Carries Nobel Prize Any

Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments. Barry Marshall

Health Crazy You Stress Doctors Before Respectable Say Would Had Ulcer Lot America Disease Century Europe Treatments

Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life. Barry Marshall

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.' Barry Marshall

Life You Stress Few Worried Find Admit About Someone Something Always Questions Yes Want Ask Eventually Recently

If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues. Barry Marshall

Plants Animals Saw Evolved Would Only Allergy Potentially Area Within Issues Been Years Lot Began Tiny Africa Different Migrate Plants And Animals Million Million Years Humans

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Barry O'Farrell

Never Intentionally Whether Sanctioned Should

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality. Baz Luhrmann

Morning You People Personality Walk Brilliant Ocean Melting Melting Pot Vital Minutes Give Pot Eclectic General Vast Within Mix Italian Blue Suburb Suburban Asian Then Sydney

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life. Baz Luhrmann

Life Job Think Enriching Directing Take

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler. Baz Luhrmann

Culture Dance Think True Any Form Leveler

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders. Baz Luhrmann

Group Member Outsiders Feel Like Any

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. Baz Luhrmann

Creative Creative Process Find Walking Process Fundamental

I love dancing. Baz Luhrmann

Love Dancing

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it. Baz Luhrmann

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