Leila Aboulela Quotes
I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
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You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.
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I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
