Nadine Gordimer Quotes

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

Nadine Gordimer

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Powerful
  • Realize
  • Chips

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Stupid
  • Enough
  • Nobody

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
  • Generation

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

  

  Carl Jung
  • History
  • Books
  • Blood

• I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.

  

  Emma Dumont
  • Mind
  • Comedy
  • Air

• My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

  

  Trey Songz
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Find
  • Students
  • Nurture

• Our dreams make us large.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Dreams
  • Make

• If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real