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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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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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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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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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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Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?
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I love working with my friends.
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Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.
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I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
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Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
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A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
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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.
