Leila Slimani Quotes
I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.
Leila Slimani
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
Barton Gellman
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
Kate Christensen
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
Kapil Sibal
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
Pat Robertson
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber
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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
Anne Carson
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
Larenz Tate
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
B. B. King
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A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.
Jodie Whittaker
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Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.
Leila Slimani
