Arthur Kemp Quotes
Apartheid–to which Afrikaners clung for decades as their only hope and salvation from Third World domination–was in fact an impracticable and unworkable system which led directly to the Afrikaners’ demise as a political force in that country.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
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I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go up and stroke it, but I wouldn't run screaming from it, either.
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I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Apartheid–to which Afrikaners clung for decades as their only hope and salvation from Third World domination–was in fact an impracticable and unworkable system which led directly to the Afrikaners’ demise as a political force in that country.
