Petina Gappah Quotes

Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Petina Gappah

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I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.

Jim Crace

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One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.

Andrew Mason

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Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

Mel Gibson

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I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

Robert Griffin III

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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

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I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Mia Kirshner

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I started doing independent films. My first one was 'Miss Bala,' which was very well-received at film festivals.

Stephanie Sigman

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I know we don't need automatic weapons, but the question may boil down to what is an automatic weapon.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Ruben Blades

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I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

Michele Bachmann

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I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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