Mohsin Hamid Quotes
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
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The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.
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I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
