Bulleh Shah Quotes
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.
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Don't ask super goofy questions at the premiere of a very serious movie or try to have an in-depth political discussion at the opening of a new fashion boutique.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Education is vital to discern between knowledge and learning.
