Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
Dinaw Mengestu
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
Eddie Redmayne
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
Jack Kingston
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
Salma Hayek
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
Candice Swanepoel
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You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.
Edmund de Waal
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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.
Laini Taylor
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My grandmother introduced me to B.B. King. She wasn't someone who had a lot of posters, but there was a big poster of B.B. King on the wall as soon as you walked into her house in Meridian, Mississippi.
Justin Scott
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Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
Etienne de La Boetie
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
Dinaw Mengestu