Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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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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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
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I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.
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It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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Being sober is not a struggle for me.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
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Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
