Azar Nafisi Quotes
This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.
Azar Nafisi
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
Garth Brooks
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
E. L. James
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
Hannah Kearney
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
Adam Beach
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We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.
Jeff Fortenberry
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
Lou Holtz
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You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.
Jill Paton Walsh
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Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
Flip Wilson
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The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.
Laurel Clark
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This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.
Azar Nafisi