Taslima Nasrin Quotes
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
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God exalts the man who humbles himself.
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Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.
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A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
