Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
