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Hannah Simone Quotes

As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in America seemed crazy. So thankfully, the way I was raised was to be an open person.

Hannah Simone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 3, 1980

Topics

Girl Crazy Growing Up America Person

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

Jo Brand

Good Think Key Someone Fair Humour

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

John Rocha

Childhood Happy World Always See

I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.

Sophie Okonedo

Home People Me Drive Fame Lazy

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

Mickey Hart

Enough Know Said Important Minds

While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President... like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

Michelle Obama

Mother Vision Husband Chance Country

There's a certain type of sociopathy to many schemers.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Many Type Certain

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Louis Aragon

Work Fear Alone Moment Men Ideas

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

Conor Oberst

Embrace Always Scenario

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

Claudia Rankine

Good Politics Poetry People Feel

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

Brian Greene

Time Experience Space Challenges You

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

Brad Goreski

Philosophy Dress-Up Playing Whole

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

August Wilson

Experience Black America Human Write