Tahereh Mafi Quotes
I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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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 like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I'll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video.
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Yeah, I'd definitely push for more of that.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.
