My Friends Quotes - Page 37

• However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Hero, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Thinking, Average, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar to writing a first-person novel. But I was writing about real people, not fictional ones - myself, my family, my friends and boyfriends and ex-husband, and that was extremely tricky.

  Kate Christensen

  Husband, Real, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

  Debra Dean

  Envy, Peculiar, Radical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like bankers and teachers, and I actually try to steer our talk away from my work when I get together with them.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Teacher, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of my friends do creative things and are doing really well at what they do - some writers, some artists. I'm in a driven circle. I've had a lot of opportunities that other people wouldn't necessarily have and seen some cool places.

  Charli XCX

  Artist, Opportunity, Circles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

  Ronee Blakley

  Men, Feminist, Knows

  Interview with Amanda Shubert, therumpus.net. December 20, 2013.

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• It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.

  Big Sean

  Real, Mean, Rapper

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.

  Tom Barbash

  Thinking, Family And Friends, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Going back to Baltimore is awesome because all my friends still live there and there's never a dull moment when you're hanging out with your high-school friends.

  Jack Barakat

  School, Dull, Baltimore

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• As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.

  Denise Duhamel

  Photography, Teenager, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Please, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

  Pam Houston

  Islands, Years, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

  Colin Hay

  Writing, Ideas, Sometimes

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• I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

  Ella Henderson

  Meaningful, Thinking, Talking

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• I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

  Jill Soloway

  Hate, Talking, Taught

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I seem to have made my friends proud of me/proud to know me. I also feel I've learned and grown a lot even in this short time, and this event has given me a lot of opportunity to continue doing so. Obviously there were a lot of negative reactions, but they seem to have overall little relevance to my life.

  Marie Calloway

  Opportunity, Events, Negative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?"

  Gabriel Mann

  Thinking, Lasts, Brilliant

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• I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, Important, Shows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My friends and I love having girls' nights in. We're hardly ever all in the same city, but when we're finally able to hang out, we make the most of it.

  Karlie Kloss

  Girl, Night, Cities

  "So This Is Karlie Kloss's Secret to Hyper Productivity". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I don't choose my friends based on how they treat each other, I choose them based on how they treat me.

  Scheana Marie

  Treats

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.

  Owen Wilson

  Art, Keith, Estates

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, January 15, 2016.

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• My friends were like, "Oh, this weekend, we're going to go shopping." "Oh, this weekend I'm going to go to see the judo champion" ... you know. And I couldn't do anything.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Weekend, Shopping, Champion

  Interview with Anohni, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2, 2016.

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• In the beginning, I was very punk. I was very revolutionary. When they asked me to do Givenchy, I didn't want to do it. My friends pushed me. But the situation with my family was so bad financially. I really did it because, when they told me how much they would pay me, I saw that my sisters and my mom could have a better life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Want, Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't look at paparazzi photos. And most of my friends don't want to be photographed, so they walk four feet to the side. If you see a photo of me laughing, that's why - because my friends don't want to walk with me.

  Olivia Palermo

  Feet, Photo Of Me, Laughing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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