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J. M. Coetzee Quotes

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

J. M. Coetzee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me World Think You Fame

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.

Joe Gebbia

Good Mistakes Year Never First Size

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

Robert J. Sawyer

Simple Think Shade Approach Utopian

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

Jeff Merkley

Walk Information Bad Choice Leaving

I think any kind of comic sequence is as easy and as difficult as it is written. So, if it is written well, then it becomes easy. Sometimes you find it difficult because the humour is not coming out.

Riteish Deshmukh

Think Easy You Find Sometimes Kind

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

Martin Sheen

Culture Focus People Suffering World

Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.

Molly Ivins

Kindness Girl Me Boots Aim Milk

It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world... What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn't.

Mira Nair

Diversity World Looks Way Reflect

I do believe we can do more to bring the U.N. closer to the world's citizen and make a real difference in their lives.

Miroslav Lajcak

World Believe Citizen More Real

My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.

Dick Cavett

Night Dream I Can Want Will Talk

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

Clive Owen

Family Home Outside Being Crowd

Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

Brad Schneider

Change Health Responsibility Moral

The constant is always mythologies and the very first stories that we have. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

Brie Larson

You Want Movies First Kid Open