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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Death
  • Name
  • Has

• 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.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Real
  • History
  • House

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Character
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Study
  • Stand

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• 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.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Know
  • Chance
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Appreciate

• I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Book
  • inspirational
  • Lyric

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Singing
  • Learned
  • Records

• Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

  

  George Will
  • Government
  • Complaining
  • Suspicion

• Every time you smile, I smile And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Smile
  • Shine

• When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Parents

• 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

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Years
  • Smile
  • Names