Nuruddin Farah Quotes
There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
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Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
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I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
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Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity
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To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
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Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.
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The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries.
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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.
