Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have to go at things in ways that suit me. I just write what I write and the stuff finds its vagrant way in the world, somehow. The venues appear; the work always finds a home, eventually.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
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I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.
