Alaa Al Aswany Quotes
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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If you use a bad password, your Bitcoin will get stolen.
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There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.
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Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
