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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If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.
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We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.
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It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
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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.
