F. W. de Klerk Quotes
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I want to be a major force.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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There is no freedom without justice.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
