Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Story
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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

  Ovid
  • Fortune
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• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
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• Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Past
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• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  

  Ike Skelton
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  • Environment
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• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Deep
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• Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

  

  Randy Savage
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• My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
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• I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
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• Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
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• The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
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  • Gone

• I ran over 10 years without missing a day, averaging close to 15 miles. I loved being able to run a long distance and get that feeling of strength and exhilaration from being in good shape. There was a meditative quality about it. Almost effortlessness. That's a special feeling.

  

  Mark Parker
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  • Long
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• It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

  

  Margaret Mahy
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  • Book
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• Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

  

  Madame de Stael
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• Tariq (meeting Laila after ten years): It's good to see you, Laila.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
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