Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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I am happy in Paris.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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Anybody can act good to be around when they are doing really well.
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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War too, must be seen as a natural occurrence.
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It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
