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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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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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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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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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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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.
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…the whole world here breathed easy concupiscence…
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I've always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don't really need much sleep at night.
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The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.
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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.
