"My essential identity is that of a writer."

-- Athol Fugard

#Identity Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.”
“Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!”
“As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.443, John Wiley & Sons
“Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.”
“I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.”
“Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.”
“Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.”

Source : Times Now Interview with Arnab Goswami, www.hindustantimes.com. January 28, 2014.
“I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.”

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