Deeyah Khan Quotes
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
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Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.
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Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
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Building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity, in a constant effort to do our best. I am confident that we can do this.
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The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
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And it gives me positive personal pain to see heirs of the eternal kingdom, made such by the ignominious death of their Lord, go shrinking and weeping to the full possession of their inheritance.
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The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.
