Leila Aboulela Quotes

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

Leila Aboulela

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: 1964

Topics

FatherFoodGrowing UpFriendsUp

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Jennifer Garner

WorkHard WorkMarriageKindFantasy

My mother was the center of the family.

John Major

FamilyMotherCenter

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

Matt LeBlanc

MenI AmSexGayNeverBisexual

Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions.

John Wesley Shipp

PeopleBookUniverseMagicHumanity

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Soren Kierkegaard

WorldInterestingAdmitSheAlways

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Tony Campolo

WorkGoodGovernmentCitizenTask

Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.

Mary Steenburgen

WorldActingPlayNeverRealSaw

So many times, I've seen conductors that, every time they have a thought, they stop the orchestra and say it, and I can see the orchestra rolling their eyes and saying, 'Oh, God, he stopped again.' So there's a technique to rehearsing.

Joshua Bell

GodEyesTimeSayingThoughtI Can

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

Demi Lovato

TrustLearnYouKnowSometimesOver

If you are a gladiator, a fighter in this sport, in life you can be the same.

Claudio Ranieri

LifeYouFighterSameGladiator

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

Brian Celio

GovernmentYouRepublicanDemocrats

I dated my first girlfriend for, like, two weeks in high school, and when you're in high school, it's so much different. I wanted to hang out with my friends and play video games and play paintball and do guy stuff. Girls were never around for my friends group.

Ashton Eaton

SchoolVideo GamesHigh SchoolYou

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