Nadine Gordimer Quotes
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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Has venido a este mundo que no entiende nada sin palabras, casi sin palabras.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters.
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Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
