Olive Schreiner Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
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Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
