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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. -- Marc Forster
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. -- Khaled Hosseini
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. -- Khaled Hosseini
I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. -- Payne Stewart
I wish my name was Tom Kite. -- Ian Baker-Finch
The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story. -- Khaled Hosseini
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. -- Khaled Hosseini
Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film. -- Khaled Hosseini
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. -- Khaled Hosseini
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. -- Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them. -- Khaled Hosseini
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. -- Khaled Hosseini
Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it. -- Napoleon Hill
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc. -- Khaled Hosseini
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day. -- Richard Branson
It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative. -- Khaled Hosseini
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner]. -- Khaled Hosseini
Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually. -- Khaled Hosseini
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. -- Khaled Hosseini
I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner ] . -- Khaled Hosseini
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans. -- Khaled Hosseini
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I've never flown a kite. -- David Benioff
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- John Petit-Senn
Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded. -- Maika Monroe
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in. -- Jeff Bridges
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. -- Alan Cohen
I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence. -- Vanessa Hudgens
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom. -- Damien Rice
I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success. -- Anthony Goldbloom
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention. -- Keith Henson
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. -- Francis Quarles
I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between. -- Paloma Faith
I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self. -- Alanis Morissette
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. -- Anais Nin
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens. -- Maika Monroe
I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous. -- Maika Monroe
I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go. -- Bertrand Piccard
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. -- Russell Smith
A kite flies against the wind, not with it. -- Winston S. Churchill
Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight! -- Kate Bush
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- John Petit-Senn
I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string. -- Karen Marie Moning
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls. -- Leonard Cohen
My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place. -- Elizabeth Berg
My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite. -- Kurt Vonnegut
[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me. -- Khaled Hosseini
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. -- Horace
Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight. -- Takuboku Ishikawa
I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite. -- Les Dawson
When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. -- Randall Dale Adams
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall. -- William Arthur Ward
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park. -- Jim Moran
When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever. -- Vikrmn
It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air. -- Pharrell Williams
Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings. -- Sherry Thomas
You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth. -- John J. Geddes
...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth... -- John Geddes
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too â?? If one says no to the other, let his wing break. -- Chinua Achebe
The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it? -- Mooji
Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight? -- Philip Jose Farmer
I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite. -- Tommy Cooper
I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues" -- Demetri Martin
Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back -- Joshua Harris
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun! -- Rick Riordan
You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool. -- Augusten Burroughs
After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That's fine for Carter, but I have standards. -- Rick Riordan
I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground. -- Florence Welch
With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff. -- Rodney Dangerfield
He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips. -- Khaled Hosseini
The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness. -- Jeff Buckley
Chicago is known as the Windy City, and Montana is called the Big Sky State, so I think that we should somehow combine the two to create the ultimate kite-flying experience. -- Mitch Hedberg
Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. -- Carl Sandburg
Like the kite that caught up to the sky,painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back. -- Kelli Russell Agodon
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. -- Augusten Burroughs
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man. -- Rudyard Kipling
California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks. -- S. E. Hinton

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