Khaled Hosseini Quotes
Mullah Faizullah: It wasn't your fault,Mariam. Don't think this way. This will destroy you, my girl. It wasn't your fault.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!
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I am a city girl I think, at heart.
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It's so much easier when you're a size two or three to just slip on anything. But a big girl, sometimes you've got to strap some stuff down!
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My girl is a ten. We’re the new Barbie and Ken. But we don’t gotta pretend, keep it one hundred percent.
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Mullah Faizullah: It wasn't your fault,Mariam. Don't think this way. This will destroy you, my girl. It wasn't your fault.
