Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.
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I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the content of their character.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
