Nadine Gordimer Quotes
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I know I look super young.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.
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Successful people often enjoy telling their story.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
