Njabulo S Ndebele Quotes
The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.
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I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, and hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is 42.
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Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.
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People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.
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Simply put, female friendships face more obstacles because they often involve more emotion, more expectations and more potential for conflict.
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I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
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It's a non-issue; it's behind us now. That was a long time ago.
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Music is my life and my passion.
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
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Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards.
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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.
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Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
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The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.
