Joe Slovo Quotes
There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.
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Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.
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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
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There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.
