Sonita Alizadeh Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I will keep working hard!
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
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For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.
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I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.
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I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.
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I like Eminem's style, and Missy Elliott. I really like M.I.A.
