Sonita Alizadeh Quotes
Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.
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You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!
