Dalia Sofer Quotes
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
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I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
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The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.
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In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
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A man has a right to want to live.
