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Fatima Afridi
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“I don’t know how you do it.” Heather. Her neighbor. This was another thing people always said, criticism disguised as compliment. Rosie laughed. Fake laughed. “Well. You know.” “No, I mean seriously.” But she did not mean seriously.
“It was a total blind spot. I’d been sitting on my hands. I could feel the clouds parting as my mentor went on.”
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
“she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.”
― East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family
― East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family
“I would forgo being liked by our audiences and settle instead for being understood.”
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
“I wanted to make him as ugly and beautiful and flawed and interesting as the people in the seats who’d come to witness.”
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
― Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
“no American who can’t relate to the balancing act called American democracy, a marvel of inefficiency that has somehow never quite lost us our prosperity or our freedom.”
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
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