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Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight. Khaled Hosseini

Life Faith You Patience Perseverance School Discipline Weather Addiction Definite Sight Crises Willingness Ability Plus Fact Through Self-Confidence Caffeine Qualities Accept Exhaustion End Optimism Get Forgo Residency Medical Medical School Need Sleep

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. Khaled Hosseini

Life Sadness Care Random Thought Stupid Our Out Rarely About Revelations End Up Unexpected Often Just Turn Aspirations Receiving

People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. Khaled Hosseini

People Find Most Redemption Unusual Human Meaning Connections

Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world. Khaled Hosseini

Thoughts World Feelings Ocean Own Every Universe Everyone Our Way Crippled Ourselves Inside Insights Individual His Truly Walking Person Inability Street Her Present

Syria's neighboring countries cannot and should not carry the cost of caring for refugees on their own. The international community must share the burden with them by providing economic aid, investing in development in those countries, and opening their own borders to desperate Syrian families looking for protection. Khaled Hosseini

Protection Burden Desperate Looking Own Community Aid Caring Those Syria Syrian Neighboring Carry Must Borders Cost Economic Share Investing Development Countries Opening Providing Families Refugees Cannot Them Should International International Community

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions. Khaled Hosseini

Life Time Sometimes Long Long Time Nothing Action Every Consequences Our Takes Understand Happens Fully Actions Series Vacuum

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Khaled Hosseini

Music Musicians Culture Destruction Films Books Giant Vandalism Scene Devastating Had Buddhas Countless Most Taliban Cultural Infamous Tapes Effect Afghan Artistic Jailed Being Burned Painters Paintings Acts Filmmakers

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. Mohammed Omar

You Struggle Healing Battle Be Patient Blessed Nation Patient Our Ours Tell Muslim Wound Another Occupation Still Continue Forget American Did Same Which Land Brethren Your Palestine

I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I wasn't allowed to do plays and things like that. It was considered dangerous. My parents didn't think it was safe for a girl to do that, and they definitely didn't think it was interesting to participate in the arts. Azita Ghanizada

Acceptance Dangerous Girl Parents Think Gave Considered Definitely Emmy Allowed Knew Participate Like Safe Always Just Arts Wanted Interesting Actor Things Plays Speech

I'm the first girl from Afghanistan to lead a series in the United States. Azita Ghanizada

Girl First States Lead Afghanistan Series United United States

TV and film has defined my entire life. Azita Ghanizada

Life Defined TV TV And Film Entire Entire Life Film

I learned how to speak English watching television. Azita Ghanizada

Speak Television Learned How English Watching Watching Television

In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions. Azita Ghanizada

Even at an early age, I rebelled against my strict upbringing. When I was 9, I built myself a 'make-out fort' in our backyard from wood, filled it with candy, and invited my blond, blue-eyed neighbor over to kiss. Azita Ghanizada

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what? Azita Ghanizada

Run Gym Like Boy Go Happens Cap Sweats Then Baseball

Whenever my mom goes to Afghanistan, I'm just like, 'Bring me jewelry.' Azita Ghanizada

Mom Me Jewelry Like Goes Afghanistan Just Whenever Bring

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished. Khaled Hosseini

Time You Mind Important Filters Diminished Distorted Through Computer Onto Write Computer Screen True Idea Feels Because Genuine Becomes Passes Been Hand Screen Different Page Your By The Time

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst. Khaled Hosseini

A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies. Khaled Hosseini

Me Doctor Fighting Nineties Sections Anesthesia Hospital He Supplies Performed Because Without Were Often Early

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal. Khaled Hosseini

Memories Conservative Country Before Changed Liberal Final Progressive Tehran Everything Way Religious Vastly Mistaken Still Go Years Up Than Essentially Different Grew Beirut Now

I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working. Khaled Hosseini

Hate Resting Restless Feel Preference Working

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children. Khaled Hosseini

Happiness Life Love Future Good Me You People Affection Expectation Sense Books Security About Something Like Than Children Want Bigger Predictability Ordinary Ordinary People Them Really Reasonable Who Street Belong

In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do. Khaled Hosseini

Writing for me is largely about rewriting. Khaled Hosseini

Me Writing About Rewriting Largely

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