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Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: south african
Birth: November 17, 1952

Topics

Executive Accountable Members

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.

Andrea Riseborough

Work Women Woman People Person Real

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

Women Want Old Equal Years Rights

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Democracy Place Nation Taken After

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Writing More Hidden Cancer Big Idea

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Great Stand Advantage Knows No-One

I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.'

Over Warmth Other Quite Saga

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

Out Because He Responsibilities Them

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

Myself People Me Acting Pictures

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Think Nice Now Two Remembering Move

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

Time People Me Writing World Think

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

Truth You Go Matter Same Out

My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the business. If I wanted to get above the plateau that I had reached in the U.K., I had to make that move.

Business Crazy Friends Said Industry

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