Olive Schreiner Quotes
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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I'm going to trust God that I'm not going to completely burn out, and that I'll have the energy in me to stay in it. Fortunately, I have really excellent people around me that are helping me.
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The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
