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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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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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.
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I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
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Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?
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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.
