Athol Fugard Quotes

The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

Athol Fugard

• People
• Up
• America
• Growing
• Distance
• Ugly
• Envy

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  • Time
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• I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
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  • Growing
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• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
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• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
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• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Up
  • American
  • Wanted

• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Never

• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Up
  • Eyes
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• I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Love
  • Think

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Culture
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• I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

  

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• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

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  • Ugly

• Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

  

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  • Up
  • Kind
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• United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

  

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  • Song
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  • Present

• I have talked to Barack Obama about Star Wars recently, in the Oval Office, and he is definitely a fan. Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution creates executive privilege, and as for government regulation and information policy, so too for Star Wars, I will not disclose discussions in private with the President of the United States.

  

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  • War
  • President
  • Office

• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Government
  • Conflict

• The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Peace
  • Determination

• The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • People
  • Up
  • America