Leila Aboulela Quotes
When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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Got your mama and sister dabbing.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
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I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.
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I was really shy as a kid.
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
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Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.
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When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.
