Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.
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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
