Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'
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I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
