Tsotsi Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.

Gavin Hood

#3. Work that mobilizes you 24 hours per day and makes you responsible to all of the people in the country is worth propelling yourself through jetlag and uncomfortable news for.

Dmitry Medvedev

#4. My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

George Washington

#5. I'm proud of my short hair. I don't think I will grow it long again.

Sylvie Meis

#6. I should have stayed by Jill's side. That was my job, right?

Richelle Mead

#7. The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

Robert Wuthnow

#8. He done taught me de maiden language all over.

Zora Neale Hurston

#9. To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Rose Macaulay

#10. Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Robert Frost

#11. One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

Nicolas Bentley

#12. My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

Jessie J.

#13. What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

Jim Carrey