Rana el Kaliouby Quotes
I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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I don't like controversy.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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People used to call me names, so my mom had this beautiful African lady come talk to me.
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What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.
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How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
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I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.
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I think, in the future, we'll assume that every device just knows how to read your emotions.
