Alan Paton Quotes
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'
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I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
