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Quotes By author - Starting with J - Janet Suzman
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There are 35 quotes for the author Janet Suzman
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I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
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So one remembered the Judaism part but I have to tell you that we weren't very well educated in Judaism. It was a little haphazard. An aunt would arrive and pluck us off to synagogue which we went rather grumblingly to.
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Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
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Also when you think about it, I mean the old Testament put it rather more do-ably: don't do to somebody else what you wouldn't like to have done to yourself, you know the sort of negative inversion of the New Testament injunction and I think that's sensible.
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But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.
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And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.
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Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.
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Jewishness is vexed in our family you know.
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But I know what Shakespeare meant; he meant there's a kind of insignificance in our life which he can apply to the world.
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I see also that Shakespeare, whether he was a Catholic or not, these historical investigations go on and on, but what is laceratingly true in his plays is that he keeps on putting the fault for our behaviour at our own feet.
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