Maysoon Zayid Quotes
I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
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It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'
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I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
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I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.
