Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
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I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
