Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
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By simply moving information and brushing information against information, any medium whatever creates vast wealth.
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A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
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The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
