Quotes by south african authors

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. Antony Sher
Saying Day You Overwhelming Would Exciting Knight Empire Majesty Like Commander Expect Get Just Letter Her Appoint British British Empire
As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are. Antony Sher
Gay You Courage Minority White Constantly South Question South African Lot Quite Quite A Lot African Whether Who Groups Belong Jewish
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African. Antony Sher
Gay Three White Minorities Always Proud South South African Very African Belonging Jewish
I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me. Antony Sher
Me Hero Physically Never Emotionally Built Least Rewarding Play
I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are. Antony Sher
Love Me People Energy Shame Makes Mixture Denying Who Waste Why
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. Antony Sher
People Writing Painting Drawing Only Obviously Well Acting
I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true. Antony Sher
Truth Good Regret Dangerous Bad Things Say Good Material Dangerous Thing Bad Never Never Regret True Involved Make Comfortable Material Arts Anyone Happen Really Thing Things
I don't believe in an afterlife. Antony Sher
Believe Afterlife
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. Antony Sher
South Africa Came South Africa Grandparents
I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies. Antony Sher
Myself Good People School Liberate Other Kid Those Weak Could Boy Were Being Acting Found
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate. Antony Sher
Life Attitude Fate Random Down Way Some Allen Simply Disastrous Been Going Woody Woody Allen Jewish
If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.' Antony Sher
You Will Become Believe Teenage Say Something Could Write Self Like Gonna If I Could Letter
I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email. Antony Sher
Complete Email Even
I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it. Antony Sher
World Believe Benefit No-One Who Therapy Deeply
You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me. Athol Fugard
Positive Me You Woman Reality Strong Men Sense Think Weak Worthless See Voice Shaped Written Well Up Affirmative Reflects Any Quite Grew Certainly Plays
For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul. Athol Fugard
You Man Soul Men South Africa Draw Out Phrase Miracle Bottom Equal Does Rock Yawn Hear West South Africa Us Created Starting
I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential. Athol Fugard
Life Me Witness Single Own Think Dramatic See Something My Own Potential Outside Between Read Does Hear Represent Newspaper Internal Fascinates Even Event Street External Plays Coincidence
Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love. Athol Fugard
Love Me Anger Love Is Energy Believe Out Would Only Writer Take Never Written Nobody Like Although Informed Used Away Ever
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage. Athol Fugard
Challenge Beginning Stage Faced Toughest Had Knot Also Audiences Came South South African Blood Trying African Stories Place Which Convince Right Career
In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life. Athol Fugard
Life Success You Problems South Africa Month Never New Nonsense South Lot York New York Africa Happen Flavor Your Presented Presents
I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant. Athol Fugard
Life Writing Guilt South Africa Own White Think Those My Own Driver Because Blindness Deals Years South Led South African Up Train Africa African Being Apartheid Meant Inherited
My essential identity is that of a writer. Athol Fugard
Writer Identity Essential
Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political. Athol Fugard
You People Political South Africa Situation Other Telling About Obviously South Question Get Africa Stories Lives
Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. Athol Fugard
Selfish Creativity Fact Very In Fact
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue. Athol Fugard
Life Myself Writing Desperate South Africa Situation Action Believe Correct Significant About Fact Write Allow Most Felt Always Issue South Very Uneasy Did Refused Africa Different Form Whether Apartheid
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me. Athol Fugard
Life Me Experience My Life Hell Living Writer Had Terror Block
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