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.

Tahereh Mafi

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Reach
  • Regardless

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• 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.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Risk
  • Jump
  • Greatest

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• 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.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Father
  • Survive
  • Twin

• 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.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• 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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• I'm not going to be boxing forever, but I've put no time-cap on it, really.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Boxing

• It was a poorly refereed game. I know there's a lot of pressure on the refs when they come here because Mark (Cuban) has them review the tapes and send them into the league.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • League
  • Mark Cuban

• I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • World

• What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

  

  John Burnside
  • World
  • Words
  • Wind

• I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Think
  • Distance

• 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.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Bird
  • Stronger