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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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.'
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Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
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Communists are the last optimists.
