Sabaa Tahir Quotes

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

Sabaa Tahir

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I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.

Jimmy Chin

LookingAlwaysUpWhoHowTaking

We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.

Jennifer Konner

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It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

Jeff Miller

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I don't have any records from back in 2002, but when people called and asked me to speak to groups, I went and spoke to groups.

Steve Scalise

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The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Sigmund Freud

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When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

Rithy Panh

TimeMeDoingChairSometimesThree

When you score, you are a hero.

Romelu Lukaku

HeroYouScore

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Debbie Harry

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French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Christian Lacroix

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If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'

Bob Corker

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Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

Wynton Marsalis

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That's match play. You've got to get lucky. You've got to try to catch somebody on a down day when you have a down day.

Peter Uihlein

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