I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.


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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
HORACE MANN
When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen...
LESLIE MANN
I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
GABRIEL MANN
I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morr...
GABRIEL MANN
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm s...
GABRIEL MANN
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red wi...
GABRIEL MANN
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters...
GABRIEL MANN
But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone say...
GABRIEL MANN
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
GABRIEL MANN
Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and littl...
GABRIEL MANN
I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great somet...
GABRIEL MANN
Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobo...
GABRIEL MANN
But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright childre...
THOMAS MANN
I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue s...
SALLY MANN
Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN
I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
GABRIEL MANN
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details an...
AIMEE MANN
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...
HORACE MANN
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
HORACE MANN
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
HORACE MANN
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...
HORACE MANN
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi...
HORACE MANN
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
HORACE MANN
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by i...
HORACE MANN
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
HORACE MANN
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No rewa...
HORACE MANN
Time has no division to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to anno...
THOMAS MANN
Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, lik...
THOMAS MANN
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so f...
THOMAS MANN
I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's re...
HERBIE MANN
For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I h...
HERBIE MANN
The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demi...
THOMAS MANN
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
HORACE MANN
It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
HORACE MANN
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds...
HORACE MANN
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
HORACE MANN
A house without books is like a room without windows.
HORACE MANN