Leila Aboulela Quotes

I read a lot of fiction.

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• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.

  

  Francesco Carrozzini
  • Beautiful
  • Clothes
  • Just

• Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Enemy

• Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Know
  • Accept
  • Opening

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • America
  • Proud
  • Propaganda

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective

• The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • House
  • Random
  • Wednesday

• Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Dollars
  • Line
  • Effectiveness

• Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Home
  • She
  • Action

• Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Me

• As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Poetry
  • Humor
  • Loved

• The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Today

• This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Good
  • Happen
  • Planet

• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

  

  Aesop

• We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • American
  • Black

• Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Life
  • Chaos
  • Harmony

• I worked in a lot of cinemas when I was at college, and I'm a movie dork, and it's a nice thing to do while you're on tour. Everything is different a lot of the time - you're never in the same place - but I like going to the cinema because it feels like no matter where you are, the experience is really the same.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• I read a lot of fiction.

  

  Leila Aboulela