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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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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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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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.
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When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn't there, Burger King, etc.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.
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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.
