Khaled Hosseini Quotes
But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
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If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'
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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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But coming close wasn't the same as winning, was it? ... He had won because winners won and everyone else just went home.
