Carla Nazih al-Berkashi (Yara) Quotes
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
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The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
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I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
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I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
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Running for Senate is a very involved process.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
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When I lived in Paris, I would shop at antique shops and buy these huge coats because I was very cold. And then I started performing in them because I felt safe. I never stopped doing that.
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We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
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I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's 'symbolism'. Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.
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I think the hardest person to love is yourself
