Andrew van der Bijl Quotes
If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Man differs from woman in size, bodily strength, hairyness, &c., as well as in mind, in the same manner as do the two sexes of many mammals.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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Well, I'm not talkin' bout locking down forever, baby.That would be too demanding.I'm just talkin' bout two lonely peopleWho might reach a little understanding.I'm not talkin' bout knocking out heavenwith whether we're wrong or we're right.I'm not talkin' bout hooking up and hanging out,I'm just talkin' bout tonight.
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Bella...plus quam civilia.
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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Mobile is something I think about all the time now.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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lines 510–524, as translated by R. Potter (1860)
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.
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If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
