Malala Yousafzai Quotes
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.
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I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.
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I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals.
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I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.
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He had been a tough, cheerful youngster, the sort who collected birds' eggs, scrapped with other boys and climbed the church tower on a dare, and now he was a tough cheerful young man who thought that being an officer in Lawford's regiment was just about the finest thing life could afford. He liked soldiering and he liked soldiers.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
