#we

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#annoyed #business #fact #first #friends

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#community #country #fight #free #freedom

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#everything #genre #i #i am #lover

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. ↗

— Amy Tan

#catcher in the rye #forbidden #great #i #influence

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chilly #conjure #could #feelings #had

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#also #completely #did #fiction #first

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. ↗

— Amy Tan

#better #bible #fairy #fairy tales #gothic

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. ↗

— Amy Tan

#clever #enough #i #originality #own

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#basically #beatles #blues #inspired #rhythm