Nadine Gordimer Quotes
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.
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Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
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Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'
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Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.
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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
