Njabulo S Ndebele Quotes
This is the formidable challenge of a popular post-apartheid government. Can it conceptually anticipate a future when it is no longer overwhelmingly in control, and resist the temptation to prevent such an eventuality.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I'll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I'm settling for a Caavo.
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I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
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Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
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As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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This is the formidable challenge of a popular post-apartheid government. Can it conceptually anticipate a future when it is no longer overwhelmingly in control, and resist the temptation to prevent such an eventuality.
