J. M. Coetzee Quotes
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.
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I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.
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I never thought I'd be right to play a Juliet-like character.
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I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
