Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Eating right has made the biggest difference in my body.
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After the invention of the printing-press, and before the Reformation, this mediaeval German Bible was more frequently printed than any other except the Latin Vulgate.
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We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.
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It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.
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Big business has no party and never shall have.
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
