Nadine Gordimer Quotes
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I am not honest.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.
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The agenda of burning embassies and treading on flags has its objective, of which seeking an apology for defaming our prophet is not among them at all.
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We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
