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

  

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• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

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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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• 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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• Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place.

  

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• Apple and the iPhone is kind of one more entrant into an already very busy space with lots of choice for consumers … But in terms of a sort of a sea-change for BlackBerry, I would think that's overstating it.

  

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• The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.

  

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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.

  

  Leila Aboulela