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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There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.
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Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
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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.
