Eliza Griswold Quotes
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.
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It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
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I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
