Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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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.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.
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We are so resilient as a people. I have so much respect for their dignity and courage. I hope the world sees this side of Pakistan, one where professionals want a democracy. The spirit of our intelligentsia cannot be broken.
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My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means.
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Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do.I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.
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If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
