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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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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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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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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What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
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Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians of the Right, libertarians are just as convinced that their ideas have yet to be tried and that they would work beautifully if we could only just have a do-over of human history.
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Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
