Quotes by South African/South Africa authors (page 6)

"I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

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

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"We are not by nature cruel"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Black man, you are on your own"

Steven Biko, Activist

"When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right"

Alan Paton, Novelist

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man"

Alan Paton, Novelist

"My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist