Amal El-Mohtar Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.
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Sometimes when you write, you say things I stopped myself from saying.
