Sabaa Tahir Quotes

I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I simply started writing.

Sabaa Tahir

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PowerMeWritingVoiceFindComfort

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

Michael Haneke

MoviesWayOne WayAssaultAnother

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Robert Bork

GreatSailShipShallowDealVery

I'll listen to the people. I will not put my party ahead of what the people want.

Matt Bevin

PeoplePartyWantAheadWillListen

It's no secret that anybody who knows the music business knows that the numbers are substantially different in Christian music than they are in country music.

Jay DeMarcus

BusinessMusicChristianCountry

As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap' has, that's great. The sense I get is that it's not about me or my performance. More than anything it's the subject matter that people are focused on.'

Jonathan LaPaglia

GreatPeopleMeChallengesYouNew

I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really know. It's okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.

Boyd Holbrook

UnderstandingKnowThreeUnderstand

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.

Anthony Doerr

MountainYourselfFeetEnoughLook

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

Austin Peck

WordsBibleReadingPageRealOff

We always see a trend on TV, and others follow suit. I think 'Rangrasiya' will be a trend setter, too.

Ashish Sharma

ThinkWillOthersFollowAlwaysSee

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Alice Walker

LifeChangeTimeI CanRealSame

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

William Pollard

LeadershipOpportunityResponsibility

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

Susan Faludi

TodayPowerGreatCulturePeople

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