Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Khaled Hosseini

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TrainingMedicalSchoolCollege

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

Adnan Sami

PeaceAnythingMusicianPartVery

What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

Joel Edgerton

AudienceUpWhereComeCharacters

I believe you have to start with yourself, think about your bad habits and prejudices, not only in your profession but generally in life. Why do I assume that a doctor is a man? Something is indoctrinated from very early on.

Max Martin

LifeManYourselfDoctorStartYou

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

Angela Merkel

FriendsNeverSpyingAmong

Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.

St. Lucia

ChangeThinkYouArtistWayHearing

I don't care if people think I'm boring.

Steve-O

PeopleThinkCareBoring

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Siobhan Davies

BeginningStartSeedNeverKnowing

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

Trevor Paglen

CapitalismThinkMonsterAII Think

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Robert Darnton

HistoryTimeEarlyHardProfession

After being cooked, ling cod tends to bleed out some moisture, so, before serving, let it rest a few moments on a plate. Once the moisture has been released, you can carefully pick up the fillet with a slotted spatula and transfer it to another plate for saucing. This way, you won't sog out your beautiful sauce.

Tom Douglas

BeautifulRestMomentsYouWayOut

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

Joseph Wambaugh

WaitBookYouBackPageKnow

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

WorkChildrenParentsSeedPlant

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