J. M. Coetzee Quotes
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Life is like an analogy.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
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Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.
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I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
