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Neill Blomkamp Quotes

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: south african
Birth: September 17, 1979

Topics

Science Me World Interesting Wealth

I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.

Wine Doing Party Go More Need

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

Lie You Idea Writer Published Until

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

Innovation Step Solitude You Kind

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Mother Age Myself Waiting Me She

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

Life Learning Goals Yourself Writing

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

End Hands Desire Everything Pay May

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

Love Me Start You Journalism Say

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Life Underdog My Life You Person

My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!

Good Live Hair Oil Without Get

Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.

People Influence Find Congress Limit

I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.

Political Know Washington Celebrity

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

Life New Meet Cave She Room

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