Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.

Khaled Hosseini

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The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he's either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he'll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he's going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner.

Jeph Loeb

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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

Andy Goldsworthy

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Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

Michael Caine

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In my mind, I don't necessarily associate a summer show with lightness.

Stephanie Savage

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Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

Robert Teeter

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Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Joss Whedon

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I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.

Jonathan Demme

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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Dennis Banks

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We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.

Dean Devlin

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I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

Craig Ferguson

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I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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There's a huge shift in the way we connect with people as humans in the technology age versus right before that, when we still had a little bit of mystery.

Phillipa Soo

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