Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We always trend set.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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Banish the faceless reward your graceBanish the faceless reward your grace.
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The Bitchun Society has had much experience with restores from backup-in the era of the cure for death, people live pretty recklessly. Some people get refreshed a couple dozen times a year.
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All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
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At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.
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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
