Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.
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Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.
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You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.
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I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
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I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.
