Arfa Karim Quotes
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I write novels and other things.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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It's not good to thicken sauce with too much butter because it can cause heaviness. You don't want to avoid butter, but you also don't want to put too much - add it slowly.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.
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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
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I love L.A. You definitely can't beat the weather, and being close to the beach is nice. It's a good town.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
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I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by the people they tryna make it for, you know what I'm saying. It's just a matter of time before everybody gets the message that I'm tryna send out.
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Technology evangelism has always been my passion since I learned how to use computers.
