Nadeem Aslam Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I am such a political person.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
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I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!
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President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.
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To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.
