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Peter Abrahams Quotes

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south african
Birth: March 3, 1919 - January 18, 2017

Topics

Positive Best Job Living Way Social

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

Good Heart Selfish Think Good Person

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Robert Griffin III

Work Hard Work Day Talent Work Hard

'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

Comedy Dark Kind First Right Pretty

If you feel like you're doing terrible in a scene, that usually means that you're not listening because you're too preoccupied with yourself... you're not listening to your scene partner. If you listen, you're naturally going to get that response that the camera's going to pick up because you just react.

Yourself Listening Partner Doing You

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.

Me Start You Down Know Three

I refuse to take shortcuts.

Colin Kaepernick

Shortcuts Take Refuse

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

William Kingdon Clifford

Great Myself Believe Be True Done

I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can't live without it.

Live Time Social Media Media Long

I'd like to start trying different fields of work. I don't want to be stuck in just comedy, and I'd be interested to try to break into the movie business because it's so much different than television.

Work Business Start Comedy Trying

I love when fans recognize me. Most of the time they don't have the guts to come up, so I'm like, 'Come here, say hi! I don't bite!'

Love Time Me Say Up Fans

I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.

People Gift Think You Acting Skill

You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups.

Lindsey Buckingham

Success Broken You Look Say Matter

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