Amal El-Mohtar Quotes

They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• We kind of like the new Outkast.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Kind
  • Like
  • New

• I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Come

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• Ability is nothing without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Past
  • Fighting
  • Class

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Society
  • Growing

• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Identity
  • See

• I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Know
  • Model

• Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Home
  • Listen
  • Liking

• My own death threats have declined considerably.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Death
  • Own
  • My Own

• Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Health

• I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

  

  John Mahoney
  • People
  • Real
  • America

• So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos, academics, just the people who don't normally get marketed to, in some way I kinda hoped that if I could collect all of them, I could say, "Hey! Look over here! There are enough people who like my stuff." And it sorta has seemed to be true.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Gay
  • Enough

• Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Sun

• They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.

  

  Amal El-Mohtar
  • War
  • Made
  • Them