Natalie du Toit Quotes
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
