Nadine Gordimer Quotes
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I was a political junkie, and it just exhausted me, and after Obama won, I just kind of unplugged from all of that for a while.
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Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.
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As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care.
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There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
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I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
