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.

Leila Aboulela

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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.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Job
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  • Experiences

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Educational
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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.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • American
  • Positive
  • Legal

• 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.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Trying
  • Sound
  • Musicians

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Happiness
  • Prison
  • Utopia

• Got your mama and sister dabbing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Sister
  • Got
  • Mama

• 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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Mysterious
  • Telling

• Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

  

  Louis Armstrong
  • Money
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• By thy cold breast and serpent smile,By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile,By that most seeming virtuous eye,By thy shut soul's hypocrisy;By the perfection of thine artWhich pass'd for human thine own heart;By thy delight in others' pain,And by thy brotherhood of Cain,I call upon thee! and compelThyself to be thy proper Hell!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
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• A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Today

• I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Up
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• I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Choices
  • Leader
  • Office

• The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

  

  Melanie Fiona Hallim
  • True
  • Fashion

• There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.

  

  Erez Lieberman Aiden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Stop

• A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

  

  Gary L. Thomas
  • Attitude
  • Affairs
  • Marriages

• 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.

  

  Leila Aboulela