Zainab Salbi Quotes
Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
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The only thing that my fans expect out of me is for it to be natural and not forced. They know me really well, and the moment I start to force something and pretend to be something I'm not, they're gonna pick up on it. They'll literally call me out on Twitter, like, 'Charlie, this is not you.'
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Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.
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Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
