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When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style. Gavin Hood

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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors. Gavin Hood

Live Medium Tools Pictures Include Actor

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?' Gavin Hood

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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war. Gavin Hood

War Lost Spent Years Friend Drafted Two

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me. Gavin Hood

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I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not. Gavin Hood

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From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world. Guy Spier

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Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles. Guy Spier

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I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons. Guy Spier

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One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett. Guy Spier

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Over the time that I followed Warren Buffett, one CFO told me, it's very important to pay attention not only to what Warren Buffett says and what he actually does - often there are subtle differences between the two. Guy Spier

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well. Hansie Cronje

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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again. Hansie Cronje

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book. Hansie Cronje

Book Busy Week Because Been Literally Last Sleep

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community. Hansie Cronje

Book Community Cricket Tried Make Much Really Hard Appeals Wider

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. Harry Oppenheimer

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I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true. Helen Suzman

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Once in a while, I treat myself to a cheesecake or carrot cake. Hugh Masekela

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I don't criticise anybody, but I just don't understand religion. Like I don't understand nationalism. These are the two things that cause wars. I don't understand why they are supposed to be good things. Hugh Masekela

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I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers. Hugh Masekela

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