Nadine Gordimer Quotes
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
Nadine Gordimer
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
Dakota Fanning
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
R. A. Salvatore
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress
I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
Yoko Ono
Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
Taylor Lautner
If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
Nawal El Saadawi
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
Adam Jones
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
Yami Gautam
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.
Varun Dhawan
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
Ava Gardner
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
George Eliot
Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.
Alyson Noel
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
Benjamin Millepied
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
Nadine Gordimer