Tahereh Mafi Quotes
His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.
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It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
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When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.
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Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
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You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
