Taslima Nasrin Quotes
When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.
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It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
