Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.
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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
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If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
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Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
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I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
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I don't judge people on their personal lives.
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I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.
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I think 'Eerie, Indiana' is a show for young people.
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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.
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Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.
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That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.
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Communists are the last optimists.
