Tahereh Mafi Quotes
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
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I love cooking and baking.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.
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We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
