Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Tahir Shah) Quotes
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
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Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.
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I just don't let that mentality be a part of my world.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
