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Nadine Labaki Quotes

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?

Nadine Labaki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: February 18, 1974

Topics

Family Women Children War Smiling

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

Jerry Spinelli

Women Age Baseball Me Reading Think

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

Jesse James Garrett

People Looking End Hard Eggs Up

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

John Galliano

Money Care Want Just About Really

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Andy Murray

Family Love Father Mother Together

If you squeeze and squeeze, and you don't allow the Iranians to sell any oil, then what do they have to lose by shutting the Strait of Hormuz down? And if they do that, that's 35% of all the world's oil that comes through the strait and 20% of the liquefied natural gas in the world.

Steve Hanke

World You Lose Down Oil Sell

The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.

Martina Navratilova

Hate Losing Tennis Hard Over Years

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

Reality Understanding Escape Way

I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.

Donald Judd

Work Look Looks First Impressions Up

The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.

Chuck Berry

Me World Done Nothing

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

Peter Capaldi

Day Saying Enough You Every Day Say

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon family where these ideas about parenting are of structure and sacrifice. To think outside of that idea of family and parenting that I've grown up with is tough but also very freeing.

Paul Walker

Family Parenting Sacrifice School

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

Scott Turow

Time Book Remember First Time First