Alan Paton Quotes
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Once you are enlightened, you don't do wrong things. You don't take to wrong things. Then you start understanding all these prophets, all these great incarnations, you start understanding what they were. Then you understand that all these religions have come out of one Tree of Life, which is spirituality.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.
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The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
