Leila Bekhti Quotes
I think that's one of the biggest problems in the world - we don't look at one another; we don't listen to one another.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.
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Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I think that's one of the biggest problems in the world - we don't look at one another; we don't listen to one another.
