Nadine Gordimer Quotes
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
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You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
