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J. M. Coetzee Quotes

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: south african
Birth: February 9, 1940

Topics

Today Feel Uncomfortable Dead Pretty

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

Water Government Drive Generation

My work and my family are very important to me.

Stephen Hawking

Work Family Me Important Very

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Business Today History Holiday Know

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

Political Become About Whatsoever

You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.

Life Me You Person My Own Own

I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.

I Am Facts Stick Tried Tight Am

Just pushing myself for more rounds at a higher pace in training. Your focus should be grounded in what you do, and that's fighting. I'm getting my cardio that way.

Myself Focus Training Fighting You

Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.

Money Me Important Motivator

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Great Day Me Better Sometimes Just

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Religion Hurt Meaning Answers Asking

I'm not joking - it's a top-three dream of mine to be on a comedy on HBO and to have it directed by Mike Judge and Alec Berg, and then on top of that, have it be with friends, two of them I've known for 10 years.

Thomas Middleditch

Judge Comedy Friends Dream Top Two

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

Single Out Auditions Before Moved

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