Joe Slovo Quotes
Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
Joe Slovo
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
Kate Christensen
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
Samantha Shannon
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
Kate Spade
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. Lawrence
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Walter Kirn
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.
Marion Nestle
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Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
Joe Slovo
