The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
G. Willow Wilson
Recitation: by Male by Female
It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.
Viola Davis
LifeAgeValuePeopleMindMe
My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.
Meaghan Rath
FamilyMotherBlessingBeginningNow
I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.
Max Richter
MeRestThinkRealityMeaningLook
I don't dispute the accounts of My Lai 4, but I think that anyone who is a student of the war, or anyone who was there, would agree that anything you could imagine happening probably happened.
Michael Cimino
WarThinkYouStudentAnything
My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
Amanda Seales
PeopleMeCreatingTwoThingsServe
For some reason, I skipped the original 'Star Wars.' I don't know why, and I'm very embarrassed.
Tom Holland
KnowWhyReasonOriginalStarSome
In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.
Rory Stewart
PeopleSpeakLanguageThreeSingle
I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone.
Russell Wilson
LifeDayMy LifeColoradoHighGone
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
Rufus Wainwright
HouseEarthRoyalAlwaysOpera
People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.
Rufus Sewell
PeopleMeThinkImpactBetterTalk
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
Javier Bardem
WomanManGenderYouBornIdea
I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'
Jonas Armstrong
TodayPeopleMeNegativeProudHood
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