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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I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
