Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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When you step out there on the field as a corner in our system, you have to be ready to play because humility is one week away.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.
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I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.
