Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes
In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
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Africa has no future.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
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I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.
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'Fruitvale' set the bar for what I wanted to do with my career, which was to make films that had consciousness and messaging in an entertaining package. Once I hit that mark, I never wanted to go back.
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When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
