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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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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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 prefer to work with first-time directors.
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People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
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People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.
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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
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As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.
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Communists are the last optimists.
