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Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

Khaled Hosseini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: afghani
Birth: March 4, 1965

Topics

Struggle Politics Impact Afghanistan

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

John Bonham

Night Doing Remember Hands Early

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams

Knowledge Freedom People Liberty

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

Mena Suvari

People Nice Want Strange Never Your

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Mel Brooks

Vision Support Ideas Writing You

I like lots of career politicians; I'm not against all career politicians.

Jeff Greene

Career Politicians Against Like Lots

One thing I learned from all my years in business is you really have to work with the experts: you can launch something yourself, but unless you have the expertise and the marketing strategies and machinery behind you, you'll never be successful.

John Rocha

Work Business Yourself You Marketing

War would end if the dead could return.

Stanley Baldwin

War End Dead Return Would Could

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Steve Vai

Criticism Push Sensitive Very Shove

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Mary Meeker

Childhood Small Small Town Optimist

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Jordan Peterson

People Speaking Working-Class Like

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

Dino De Laurentiis

Camera Place Director Producer

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

Dennis Ritchie

Work Ideas Colleagues Plan Group