Nadine Gordimer Quotes
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
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I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.
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Really hard laughs, they've gotta make you live longer or something.
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I was practically raised with Christmas music.
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If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
