#apart

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #athlete #been

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#bit #enjoy #fall #honest #i

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#apartheid #attempt #black #both #doomed

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. ↗

— Amos Oz

#born #bred #i #i was born #tiny

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #act #apart #does #everyone

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#around #away #components #different #happens

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#basic #bloody #called #concepts #fact

I deliberately returned slowly to training after Raphael was born and everything, apart from being bitten by a dog whilst out training in Monaco at the beginning of the year, has gone pretty well. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#apart #beginning #being #bitten #born

I've always been good at putting things behind me - I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#apart #away #been #behind #bit

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#always #apart #care #i #i do