Antjie Krog Quotes

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

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• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fun

• Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Training
  • Conditions
  • Racing

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Own
  • Run
  • Soviet

• It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Good
  • Husband
  • New

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Desire
  • Happiness

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Boundaries

• I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Love
  • Me

• Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Job
  • Single

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Play
  • Mozart

• We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Best
  • Efficiency

• I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Believe
  • Atheist

• I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Long
  • Done
  • Day

• Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Better
  • Someone
  • Cynicism

• Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Up
  • Age
  • Beauty

• In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

  

  Don McLean
  • Children
  • Poet
  • Lovers

• That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Think
  • Bird

• Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Song
  • Vision

• I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.

  

  Antjie Krog
  • Think
  • Poet
  • Clear