Natalie du Toit Quotes
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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You keep learning all the time.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I like Higuain very much, but unfortunately, he isn't contributing the way he does in Europe. He's playing very well for Juve and is in the running for a lot of trophies, but if he needs a rest, then why not give Icardi a chance?
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
