Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
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Related Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he w... GAIL KELLY It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. DESMOND TUTU I called these three numbers from about 10 a.m. until midnight and was unable to get through. They w... PAUL HAYES Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only fo... MO IBRAHIM Nelson Mandela was as disappointed as I was. RUUD GULLIT As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand... JACKSON BROWNE When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went ... TOMMY CHONG Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat... DESMOND TUTU It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it ... F. W. DE KLERK Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail. BOBBY SEALE Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country wil... HENRY ROLLINS I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix... TREVOR NOAH I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind. KEVIN PIETERSEN When they had (Nelson) Mandela shows in London the bill was really mixed and I don't think we lost a... PETER GABRIEL I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day,... FRED WILSON I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies ... WADAH KHANFAR I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was... ROBIN WILLIAMS I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, a... JANN KLOSE I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out. BO JACKSON I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born. DANIEL HOPE I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in ord... AARON SCHOCK My lack of enthusiasm was due to my illness the night before. I was in the hospital until 3 a.m. and... JULIE LELAND The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I... CHRISTOPHER REEVE I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men. BILL OWEN I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had be... JOHNNY VEGAS I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... ALICE WALKER I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't thi... DAVE MATTHEWS I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until... BRIAN ENO I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when ... KANDYSE MCCLURE When I was in politics I had no problem making decisions, ... In fact, I was overly vocal many times... LARRY MEYER I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It w... LAURA OSNES From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from 'Saturday N... KIRSTEN VANGSNESS There had been a work ethic in our organization for a long time where if you weren't in your chair a... ALLEN BELL I got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' unt... JOE SCARBOROUGH Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was... WALTER DEAN MYERS I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times,... CHICK COREA I go to bed at 2 A.M. and get up at 7 A.M. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sic... ALEXA VON TOBEL In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwa... PATRICK SOON-SHIONG We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting... NELSON MANDELA I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-ac... OLIVER TAMBO I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time. YULIA TYMOSHENKO I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It'... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady... LANA PARRILLA From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then unti... TOMMY WILLIAMS I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth... JOHN SHELBY SPONG The last time I played for South Africa was in July so I've had itchy feet to play for my country. JENNIFER WILSON He was never a member of this organization! That's all I have to say about ... Pete McGowan. MICHAEL HOPKINS I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I w... BAI LING We were always involved, ... Rich was active in the ward organization, the 11th ward organization, w... WILLIAM DALEY Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55. CHARLES KEATING and said I could not come to South Africa until I had apologized to many individuals and groups, the... STEPHEN LEWIS I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too st... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Ta... RICHARD STANLEY I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... DAISY RIDLEY I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kin... CANDICE SWANEPOEL I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so... ST. LUCIA I think the very first time I was probably about 6 or 7, ... I went with my father. I think it was a... KYLE EASTWOOD When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to h... OLGA KURYLENKO Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN... DESMOND TUTU I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Pa... TANIT PHOENIX I rode out to the lake at 7 a.m. and one brave (cold) fellow was fishing but had no luck yet. BILL COX I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?'... CHRIS CARLISLE Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I ... HARLAN COBEN It was wicked meeting Nelson Mandela RIO FERDINAND I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies... RICHARD BRANSON But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota... CHUCK BERRY I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it wa... AARON LAZAR I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to ... DEREK CIANFRANCE We woke up at 7 a.m., and on good nights we'd finish at 9 p.m.. A couple of nights, we didn't finish... DAVID BEATSON The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. ... DAVID DASTMALCHIAN I think it's pretty cutting edge. San Bernardino County in California visited us about it. I have ha... JAMES BURKE I've had a very unique path that's different from everybody else's. I was never a dater.... HILARY DUFF I also never went there when I was little because I was too busy working and traveling on national t... CHRISTY ROMANO When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I grew up in Balham in south London, and my best friend's brother was Geoffrey Robinson, who of ... ART MALIK I was born in France. I grew up in Africa. BENJAMIN MILLEPIED I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ... JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pret... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get ... JENNETTE MCCURDY I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director. DAVID FRANKEL We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I ha... TODD RUNDGREN I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school,... EMMANUELLE BEART When I went on my first run about two months after having my first child in 1998, I didn't get more ... BONNIE BLAIR I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ... FELICITY JONES I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went int... DEMI LOVATO That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway arou... HERB RITTS As a child, I liked to play outside, to stroll through the fields, and I was an active member of the... HARTMUT MICHEL I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed... JIMMY CARTER In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until ... ADAM GRANT I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... VANILLA ICE I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he g... LEONARD SUSSKIND I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it. JACK GLEESON South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to Sout... DAVE MATTHEWS I think it's one of the challenges of modern politics, which is, how do you communicate who the ... MITT ROMNEY I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood. NICOLE SCHERZINGER
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