Monica Ali Quotes
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I don't feel closeted.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
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History develops, art stands still.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.
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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.
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The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.
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A new car is not going to change your life.
