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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Life does not owe me a shred.
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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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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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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 was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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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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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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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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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.
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The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
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It wasn't easy to get the family to this point. I had to work two jobs. I had all nine kids. I stayed there with them and got them all into show biz. I don't care what anyone else said, I did my job.
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
