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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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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'Consigned to everlasting fire,' said Nicholas in a faint voice. He had gone white as chalk.'No, you medieval imbecile!' Edward clenched his fists. 'You still have no grasp of the truth, have you? Leave your angels and devils in the trash of history, where they belong.'
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Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.
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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
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Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
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I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.
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I was trying to go as fast as I could. I didn't know I was in the lead. I was this close to the wall.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
