Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.
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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
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People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
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I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.
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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
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When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.
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I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.
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Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.
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Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.
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The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
