Noureen DeWulf (Noureen Ahmed) Quotes
I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.
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Sometimes, when I wake up, my soul is in another city!
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Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.
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Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
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There is increasing scope for the dollar to come under pressure. Once again, we see structural issues starting to work against the dollar.
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People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
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I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.
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I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
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Every fair from fair sometime declines
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I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.
