Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls."
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Pharrell Williams
Musician, Producer
"It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air."
Alan Cohen
Author
"You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it."
George Herbert
Poet
"To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine."
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"Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film."
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"children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes."
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"When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing--kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition."
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"We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break."
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"By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living."
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"And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it."
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"Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break."
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"And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center."
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"Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself."
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"I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious."
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"I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel."
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"The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against."
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"[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music."
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"For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past."
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"In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story."
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"The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story."
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"Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it."
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"The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over."
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