Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.
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Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.
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When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
