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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If thou dost love, proclaim it faithfully.
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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
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Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
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I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.
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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
