Nadine Gordimer Quotes
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.
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My speed is my greatest asset.
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It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.
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power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
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it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
