J. M. Coetzee Quotes
She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think.
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She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
