Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
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I like to look strong and commanding.
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Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.
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Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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I don't plan on ever letting my daughters date. I'm going to try to do everything I can to prevent it. You know, it just terrifies me. It just terrifies me.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
