Nadine Gordimer Quotes

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

Nadine Gordimer

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
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  • Light
  • Sky

• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
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  • Bad

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
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  • Man

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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  • American
  • High

• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  

  Rachel Field
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  • Book
  • Friends

• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Fun
  • Light

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
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  • Experience
  • Truth

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
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  • Great

• I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
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  • Proud

• I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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  • Great
  • Believe

• I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
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  • Enjoy

• I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Over
  • Just Do It

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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  • Reading

• I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

  

  Matthew Henson
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  • God
  • Wind

• What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.

  

  Celeste Ng
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• Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Notes

• I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Music
  • Real
  • Job

• I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
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  • Writing
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