Rumaan Alam Quotes

It is true for my family and many others: Adoption has made us infinitely richer in the ways that matter most.

Rumaan Alam

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Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.

Jim Brown

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I believe time wounds all heels.

John Lennon

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In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.

Michael Goldenberg

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Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

John Sexton

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I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.

Stewart Lee

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It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.

Jay Asher

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'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

Jonathan Levine

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A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Donald Tusk

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I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.

Daya

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I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

Craig Ferguson

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When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier.

Anne-Marie

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I feel like I'm a nice character, and I don't have my own agenda.

Anthony Bennett

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