Quotes by South African/South Africa authors (page 5)

"I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"I really love writing themes and melody"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived"

Gary Player, Athlete

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"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, Author

"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"You must work very hard to become a natural golfer"

Gary Player, Athlete

"As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer"

Gary Player, Athlete

"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts"

Gary Player, Athlete

"Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play"

Gary Player, Athlete

"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

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Quotes by South African authors