Tahereh Mafi Quotes
People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
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I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.
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Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
