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Azar Nafisi Quotes

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: iranian
Birth: 1955

Topics

American Literature Years Degree Got

I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

Angry Support Enough Washington Our

A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.

Focus Day Wake Up Hotel Mission You

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Work Enough You Nobody Lucky Bigger

I believe that people generally want to be what we call good. They want to cooperate with people. They don't want to steal; they don't want to cheat. But everybody has a price. Everybody has an incentive.

Stephen J. Dubner

Good People Believe Price Want Call

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Women Competition Support Think Go

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

Blessed Existence Grant Felt Porter

You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy.

Business Service Yourself You Lose

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

Actor Directing Approach Standpoint

Like Theresa May, I regularly find myself infuriated by the rantings of Anjem Choudary and other hate preachers.

Myself Hate Find May Like Preachers

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

Friends Horse Some Big-Time Biggest

I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

Love Live Wife Creative People

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Good Bad Books Period Distinction

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