Khaled Hosseini Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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Music is about the performance.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.
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Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.
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A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
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Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
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You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.
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Giti: Nobody ever came for my hand.
