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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.

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• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Difficult
  • Need
  • Tools

• The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Thoughts
  • Acting

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I bought a girl roses once.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Girl
  • Once
  • Roses

• If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Love
  • Stop

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Life
  • Security
  • Sport

• I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Life
  • High
  • Parents

• Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Song
  • Know
  • Tired

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Wife

• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Live
  • Down

• It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • You
  • Things
  • Connections

• I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Risks

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

  

  Anne Dudek
  • Why
  • Job
  • Pretty

• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Good
  • Counter
  • Hamburger

• A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Man
  • Coverts

• No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

  

  Dong Dong
  • Life
  • Important

• I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.

  

  Iman
  • Man
  • Model
  • Doing