Nuruddin Farah Quotes
To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
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My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
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Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy - you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism.
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I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
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What is unusual is not always threatening. What is different is not necessarily strange.
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'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
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Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.
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It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.
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Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
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I'm weird about fruity desserts like lemony, acidic, zesty... I don't like lemon things and orange things, really.
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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.
