Nadine Gordimer Quotes
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Treat your life like a game.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
