Sayed Kashua Quotes
Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that I gave up - that I surrendered, that I felt that I lost my small war. So the whole column is different than the columns that I used to write back home, back in Jerusalem.

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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I want to be a major force.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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When I do videos, it's just myself.
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We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
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The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this feeling that I gave up - that I surrendered, that I felt that I lost my small war. So the whole column is different than the columns that I used to write back home, back in Jerusalem.