J. M. Coetzee Quotes
The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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The only way to experience an experience is to experience it.
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We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
