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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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.
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I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.
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Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
