Nadine Gordimer Quotes
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in AfricaNadine Gordimer
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
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.
Zadie Smith -
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
Zig Ziglar -
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
Quentin Tarantino -
I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
Zoe Kazan
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
Gary Bettman -
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.
Aaron Paul -
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.
G. Willow Wilson -
I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
Rakul Preet Singh -
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.'
Oscar Pistorius -
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
Gail Simmons -
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.
Nacho Figueras -
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
Zig Ziglar -
Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Umberto Eco -
When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
Edmund Morgan -
Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
Jack Ma
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I'm a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.
Jason Moran -
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
Charlie Brooker -
When I do shows in the U.K., I see lots of people bring their kids to the show. Which is perfect because I am the world's most embarrassing mom.
Claire Patricia Grogan Altered Images -
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.
Angela Davis -
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
Nadine Gordimer