Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
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'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
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Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.
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I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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As a writer, I'm a composite intelligence.
