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.
