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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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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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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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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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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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I've been a skier since I was 2 or 3, skiing with my dad in northern New York and Vermont.
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The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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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.
