Alan Paton Quotes
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing -
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
Aaron Neville -
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo -
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
Pat Summerall -
I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
Warren Spector
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
Jack Ma -
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
Garry Trudeau -
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
Ioan Gruffudd -
I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Karen Joy Fowler -
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
Gary Shteyngart -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
Desire creates its own object.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills -
All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
Zac Goldsmith -
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood -
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
Barbra Streisand
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Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.
Dee Dee Myers -
It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
Vita Sackville-West -
Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.
Maureen O'Sullivan -
Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
Charles Pollock -
I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.
Mother Teresa -
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
Alan Paton