Gemma Files Quotes
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with
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-music's powerIs little felt in sunlit hour;But hear its voice when hopes depart,Like swallows, flying from the heartOn which the summer's late declineHas set a sadness and a sign;. . . . . .How deeply will the spirit feelThe lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal;And how the heart drink in their sighsAs echoes they from Paradise.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.
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When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.
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I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.
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When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.
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A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
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People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.
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I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
