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Randa Abdel-Fattah has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner…
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You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love,…
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We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my…
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the…
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with…
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually…
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I…
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had…
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I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
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