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To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Mona Eltahawy
Day Me Library Everything Librarian Would Thread No Idea Unravel Idea Terror Understood Feminist Were Texts Placed Them Filled Found Professor University Pulling
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true. Mona Simpson
Best Day Trust Better Will Reading Before Changing Marking Trigger Something Habit Ritual Instead True Over Come Make Texts Trying Closer Room Dedicated Keep Actual Amount
To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts. Naseeruddin Shah
Me Theatre Important Most Texts The Most Important Elements Actor
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. Paul Theroux
Me Type Magical Seem Seemed Were Texts Movable Certainly Who Manuscripts Illuminating Copying Monks
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence. Paulo Coelho
God You Face Islam Christianity Religions See Somehow Major Judaism Feminine Go However Texts Deny Holy Presence
In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying. Penelope Keith
Saying Great You Age Communication People Nice Everyone Voices Know Understand Got Hear Lot Texts Them Tweets Actually
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people. R. Kelly
People Better Reading Whatever Say Student Because Gotten Lot Texts Want Even
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. Ridley Scott
God Own Visual Give Sacred Had Texts Artists Depiction Centuries Choose Specific Filmmakers
Texts are always in flux. Robert Darnton
Flux Always Texts
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. Rumaan Alam
Immaterial Writer Exchange Between Particular Genre Reader Texts Useful Useful Thing Organizing Thing
In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls. Sarah Jeong
Facebook World Phone Internet Thought Girl Late Late Teens Teens Emails Phone Calls Like Institutions Obvious Calls Were Texts Etiquette Her Things
I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away. Shari Sebbens
School Fall Group Drama Drama School Earnest Those Enter Classic Diverse Only Through Lead Students Studied Lead Roles Soon Alongside Importance Industry Texts Very Role Roles Graduate Being Acting Measure Away Specific Played
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. Simon Cowell
Punctuation Put Make Sure Still Texts Capital
You get a buzz when getting texts: 'Oh, someone's thinking about me.' Spike Jonze
Me You Thinking About Someone Texts Get Getting Oh Buzz
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police. Stieg Larsson
Writing Police Innocent Too Much Will Too Everybody Kind Threatened Threats Fail Come Most Call Occasionally Without Been Texts Gets Happen Happens Might Much Who Things
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters. Stieg Larsson
Thoughts Editing Words Better Matters Say Ability Both Hacked Put Altogether Edited Editor Am Texts Confident Being After Which Them Used Away
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time. Tariq Ramadan
Time Day Needs Religion Challenges Intelligence Those Responding Must Atheists Spirit Sacred Study Sharpen Deal Real Questions Texts Timeless Just Order Century Who Conscience Presence Thinkers
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth. Taryn Simon
Work Other Back Those Construct Points Between Altered Occurs Texts Blur Again Forth Each Images Two
Nobody ever texts me, because they know what I'm like. I'm a constant frustration to my children because I never switch my mobile phone on. I only use it when I need to make a call or when I'm stuck somewhere or lost, then I switch it off again. I've never texted anyone in my life, and I'm not sure I even know how to. Terry Wogan
Life Me Frustration Phone My Life Somewhere Lost Constant Only Stuck Never Nobody Like Know Make Call Sure Because How Mobile Off Texts Children Anyone Again Then Use Even Switch Ever Need
I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says. Theophilus London
You Hate Writing Emotions Confused Says See Girlfriends She Because Texts Get Really
For most of us, starting off in the morning, your iPhone wakes you up, you immediately start checking emails or texts or whatever, and you're up and running until you go to bed. Tim Ryan
Morning You Whatever Emails Immediately Running Checking Most Until Bed Go iPhone Off Wakes Up Texts Us Your Start Starting
I'm always getting texts asking why I'm not responding on Instagram or Facebook, and I'm like, 'It's not me. You're writing to some stranger.' Travis Fimmel
Me You Facebook Writing Responding Some Instagram Like Always Texts Getting Asking Stranger Why
My texts are written like palimpsests. They are written over and over again, until I feel that a kind of metaphysical meaning can be read through the writing. W. G. Sebald
Writing Kind Through Written Feel Over Like Until Read Metaphysical Texts Again Meaning
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. Will Self
Fluid Paper Adolescent Were Up Texts Blotting
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics. Willard Boyle
Physics Sometimes First Experiment Introductory Supervisor He Referred Texts Labs Lester Bell
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. William Shenstone
Musical Those Poetry Prose Most Period Felt Frequently Lines Texts Quoted Which Scripture Even
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