Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
