Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes
You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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Everybody deserves an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
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You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
