Leila Aboulela Quotes

Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

Leila Aboulela

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: 1964

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WordsNowNeedExplainDictionary

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

Jim McKay

GratefulI AmI Have LearnedNow

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

SayingWrongBeliefsSomebodySort

Family makes a house a home.

Jennifer Hudson

FamilyHomeHouseMakes

I still don't think the world has seen the best Andre Ward. Initially, I just wanted to get in there and win.

Andre Ward

BestWinWorldThinkSeenGet

Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who, in simpler times, used to be considered valued customers.

Andrew Breitbart

AmericanPoliticalMediaValuesBias

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Robert Stone

WritingProcessDoingYouCreating

Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.

Ann Nocenti

LoveGreatHeroI AmActionTools

I live in Brooklyn.

Ana Gasteyer

LiveBrooklyn

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

Stephen R. Donaldson

MeFantasyAdultOnlyPublished

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

Ronnie Spector

GoodMusicPeopleThinkBehindLike

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

Ron Paul

FreedomAmericanYouIndividual

I don't ever take a break. I'm always writing.

Dito Montiel

WritingAlwaysBreakTakeEver

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