Delia Ephron Quotes
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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I have always loathed working out.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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The pages of Euclid are like the opening bars of the music of the Grand Opera of Nature's great drama. So to say, they lift the veil and show to our vision a glimpse of a vast world of natural knowledge awaiting study.
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A weak invention of the enemy.
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It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.
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I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.
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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
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When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me or made me understand a friend better, what somebody else is going through,' you see the positive things.
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It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
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Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner.
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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
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Doyouwantogoona-Who is this? Oh, I have the wrong number.
