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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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
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The sources of inspiration from my travels have been unending.
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.
