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“During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners.”
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“People are what this election is all about.”
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“More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.”
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“It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”
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“In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.”
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“I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!”
Source : Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”
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“I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have seen a big ship. She had got married since I went away; it was a made match, a man from the midlands, a Donal, who had worked in a garage but took to farming, out all day, draining fields and callows so that he could till them and sow corn.”
