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The apartheid government was frightened of ridicule. Everyone is frightened of laughter.

— Janet Suzman

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Theatre is a white invention, a European invention, and white people go to it. It's in their DNA. It starts with Shakespeare.

Nature has a way of dealing with your brain when you have a child – it turns it to porridge.

I remember being absolutely shocked in Australia at the absence of black people.

Life and art get mixed up sometimes – it's what actors draw on.

You can't envy something you can't be, can you? You sat and admired what was emerging.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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