Pardis Sabeti Quotes

At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.

Pardis Sabeti

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• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  

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• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

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• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

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• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  

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• I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

  

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• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

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• Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

  

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• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

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• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

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• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  

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• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

  

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• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

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• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

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• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

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• My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

  

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• If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.

  

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• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

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• My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.

  

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• Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

  

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  • Small
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• At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Learning