Art Malik Quotes
When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I don't like controversy.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.
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If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
