Nargis Fakhri Quotes
I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
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All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.
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My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
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I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
