Nadine Gordimer Quotes
Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
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I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.
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We understand very clearly what's at stake. The president made a conscious decision to cater to the base and left Middle America out in the cold.
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
