Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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• The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Direction

• I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Say

• I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Film

• While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Want
  • Trump

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Die
  • Struggle

• I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Music
  • End
  • Short

• We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Personality
  • Speed
  • Facebook

• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

  

  Foster Friess
  • America
  • Free
  • Gun

• I bat righty.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Bat

• Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Love
  • Movie
  • High

• The facts are always less than what really happened.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Always
  • Facts
  • Less