Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I would love to do theater. But I am very picky when choosing theater. I just won't do anything.
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Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
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Every day in every way we are leaving our mark.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
