If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

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I still think I am the greatest. -- Kanye West

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Old is always fifteen years from now.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ― Ovid

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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ― Elbert Hubbard

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. — Joe Biden

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau

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