Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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A hospital is no place to be sick.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Friends and family are vitally important for an individual who is struggling to return to the gospel path. Those around such a person must refrain from judging. They must do all they can to show love.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
