Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.
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I can't not be who I am.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.
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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.
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I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
