Asne Seierstad Quotes
The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.Asne Seierstad
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul -
I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
Ed O'Neill -
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
Rachel Shelley -
The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
Kapil Sibal -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
Vincent Cassel -
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas -
I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
Washed Out -
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman -
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Harriet Walter -
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry -
Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
Taylor Lautner -
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis -
You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
Ian Dunbar -
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
C. Wright Mills
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I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.
Dinah Sheridan -
"Tunisia is always ready to turn the page."
Habib Bourguiba -
We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
Daniel Lubetzky -
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain -
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
Emil Cioran -
The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.
Asne Seierstad