I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

Then as I turned seven, I gradually moved onto pastels and started painting on large canvases that were much bigger than me.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

My holidays in Hyderabad would be spent on films sets visiting my father and uncle, or in the studios; I was gradually drawn to films.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse.

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

The coolest people reveal themselves gradually, and flirting isn't just about making yourself look great, it's about making him feel great too.

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

As a model, I look at clubs like Brighton and the success they've achieved gradually on a sustainable budget. I want to take a similar approach.

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.

I did a ski festival in Austria once. I was struck by how friendly Austrians were, before gradually realising it's more that Glaswegians are awful.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

For the longest time, I was very conscious of the camera while doing a scene. It wouldn't seem natural. But gradually, I've become more comfortable.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older.

When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.

Gradually, decentralized trust will be accepted as a new and effective trust model. We have seen this evolution of understanding before - on the Internet.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

So who is Jesus? For me, he's the central character in the greatest story ever told. It's a story about a gradually realizing kingdom that lies inside of us.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

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