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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've found the best treasure... You."

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Amber Hurdle

"I can see your dirtypillows."

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Amber Hurdle

"It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do."

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Amber Hurdle

"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

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Amber Hurdle

"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."

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Amber Hurdle

"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

Parenting

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."

Culture

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."

Humor

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Age

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

Technology

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