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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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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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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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
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When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
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Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.
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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
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Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.
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Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
