Hassan II of Morocco Quotes
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
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Tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympumfulmine et excussit subiectae Pelion Ossae.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
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I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.
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The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'
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I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
