Alan Paton Quotes
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
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People have the right to love who they love and nobody should have anything to say about it!
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A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
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Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
