Natalie du Toit Quotes
I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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I didn't have any pets growing up.
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We all yearn in our hearts to be Larkin's 'shit in the shuttered chateau', but few of us achieve that grand apotheosis.
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If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
