Waris Ahluwalia Quotes
I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.
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I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I am the original 'Material Girl.'
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
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Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilize and galvanize a lot of these ideas and resources. It's a war of ideas. We, Islamic women, are very well supported in this country by institutions, academic and nonprofit, that are already in the field endorsing women's rights and tolerance. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work.
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I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
