Leila Aboulela Quotes

I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

Leila Aboulela

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: 1964

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FootballReligionIdentityIslam

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

Joe Jamail

HistoryTexasYearBackUniversity

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Jerry Hall

BeautyMusicArtBigBig FanJust

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

Melissa George

WorkHomeMeThinkGoPay

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Andy Serkis

MountainSwimmingYouKnowOverUp

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

Michael Franti

CommunityThinkHollywoodMoreRight

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

Sprague Grayden

GreatMediaGreat ThingsCountry

I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.

Steven Berkoff

TimeVillainInterestingBadMovies

What does it prove, running in the AAU meet?

Steve Prefontaine

MeetProveRunningDoes

I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

Rob Portman

TodayGovernmentYouPlayRight

I now sit at the table in a variety of ways with the House leadership... as we go through taking a look at threat assessments and hot spots around the world. It's a national position, but certainly I don't forget that New Jersey has a critical part of national defense.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

LeadershipWorldLookHouseTable

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Jonathan Zittrain

FreedomFlameInternetEasyLaunch

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

Jonathan Katz

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