Isabelle Fuhrman Quotes
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of 'The Hunger Games.'
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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I was feeling it. I felt like that put us in a good position to win the game at that point.
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I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.
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The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.
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When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.
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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
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American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
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Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of 'The Hunger Games.'
