Fatema Mernissi Quotes
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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This bikini made me a success.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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My dirty little secret is I don't drive at all, though I have my license and I renew it every five years. I'm phobic. I keep worrying if I drive, I'll end up killing someone. I hoped that by writing about a car crash, I might understand and heal this phobia, but I didn't! I'm still phobic.
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I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
