Athol Fugard Quotes
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.Athol Fugard
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
Barbara Mandrell -
Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
Saad Hariri -
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus -
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz -
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson -
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
Dan Quinn -
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers -
My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
Dana Perino -
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria -
I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
Nate Berkus
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf -
Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
Ben Zobrist -
Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.
Barack Obama -
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Bob Woodward -
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
Paula Abdul -
All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.
Athol Fugard