Hanif Kureishi Quotes
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.
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You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
