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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Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
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Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
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Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.
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Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.
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I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
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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.
