Natalie du Toit Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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There are some things that are under our control, and that is to ensure that we ourselves follow sound macroeconomic stability rules.
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Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?
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There are a lot of people holding on to the old Jessie J - whatever that means - but I think there's a lot more people realizing what I'm about. I think people like it.
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People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
