J. M. Coetzee Quotes
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
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Willow: What did I have for breakfast this morning? Do you remember?Tara: Huh?Willow: I-I wanna say bagel, but I think that was yesterday. You had two eggs sunny side up. I remember because they were wiggling at me like little boobs.Tara: Sassy eggs.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.
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Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.
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In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
