Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
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I'm a character actor.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
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It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.
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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
