Tahereh Mafi Quotes
Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.Tahereh Mafi
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
Rachel Nichols -
I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
Sally Mann -
I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
Barbara Palvin -
For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
Gal Gadot -
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Page McConnell -
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
Olga Kurylenko -
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
Yael Stone -
It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
Karen Salmansohn -
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne -
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
Larry Niven
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi -
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
Ralph Adams Cram -
I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
Victoria Aveyard -
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
Gary Wright -
It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
Kaley Cuoco
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
Carl Hiaasen -
For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
Donnie Wahlberg -
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
Teju Cole -
To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.
Raekwon -
Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.
Tahereh Mafi