Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes
The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
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I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism-real life-the now.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.
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Life's too mysterious to take too serious.
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The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
