Leila Aboulela Quotes

My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.

Leila Aboulela

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: 1964

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StruggleChoicesLogicMakeMuslim

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

John Schneider

FilmmakerCoreStoryteller

Maybe after my third album, I'll just go to uni. That would be really cool.

Sigrid

CoolGoJustWouldThirdAlbum

I've considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I've done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations.

Tom Reiss

MyselfWaitingCollegeBusyDone

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Tom Waits

HappinessKnowledgeConfusedWealth

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

Monica Lewinsky

MeThinkDecisionsChooseKnowTry

I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid.

Lucy Dacus

LifeMeMomFeelIntentionalKid

People say they get a warmness from me.

Loni Love

PeopleMeSayPeople SayGet

My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.

Dick Van Patten

FriendsStarWhoFourJackPaul

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

Desi Arnaz

ThinkYouTellStarMakesAnyone

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Douglas MacArthur

LifeJourneyTimeSoulHonorDone

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

William McKinley

GovernmentPeopleFreeIndependent

Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

MeGrowing UpWorldForwardI Can

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