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Salim Akil Quotes

When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and people are going to read what you write - that's power.

Salim Akil

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Power People You Pen Write Going

In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

Jerry Lawler

Good Time Day Competition Think You

Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say.

Robert Lepage

Technology Trying You Hide Sometimes

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Michael Hastings

Generation Want Greatest Reporter

'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.

Sia

Me Singing Back Supposed Vocal Put

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

Sienna Miller

Girl Romantic Purpose Think You

A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.

Troye Sivan

Good Heart Voice Speak Place Being

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

Shirley Temple

Thought Original Would Did Which

As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Think Nothing More Older Convinced

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

Domhnall Gleeson

Character Great Day Think You Kind

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Douglas Preston

Power Peace War Me Book Literature

I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

Douglas Rushkoff

Life Myself Experience Find Go

Repetition doesn't create memories. New experiences do.

Brian Chesky

Memories Repetition Create New