J. M. Coetzee Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I love science fiction.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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What we share with another ceases to be our own.
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
