Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's.
They do everything to make you fail; but when you win they all start kissing your shoes to be part of the game.
Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.
I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.
If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination
I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.
The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.
I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.
To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.
I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.
