#heir

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#chances #characters #gifted #greater #mind

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#generally #hack #i #like #lips

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#corporate #fascinating #grips #growing #hear

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#deprived #history #iranian #just #past

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#ball #did #each #england #hockey

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#character #children #forget #frustration #gone

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#children #culture #decisions #entire #indian

I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#interesting #interesting stories #just #present #qualify