Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Sadly, I've never met Princess Kate.
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I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
