Alan Paton Quotes
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.