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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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
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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.
