Ahdaf Soueif Quotes

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Water
  • Myself
  • Breakfast

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Learn
  • Better
  • Than

• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Understand
  • Difficulties

• The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Thinking
  • English
  • Language

• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Love
  • Reflection

• I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Dreams

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Character
  • Man
  • Look

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Win
  • Trouble
  • Other

• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Growth

• My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Chance

• A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Success
  • Respect
  • Artist

• I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Dad

• That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

  

  Halsey
  • Remember
  • Choose
  • Musicians

• True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • She
  • True

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Hand

• Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing.

  

  Ahdaf Soueif
  • Words
  • Mean
  • Same