André Brink Quotes
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.
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The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.
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If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.
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I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.
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If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.
