Tahereh Mafi Quotes
Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer.
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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India.
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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.
