Yasmine Al Masri Quotes
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
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If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse.
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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
