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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You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.
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A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?
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When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
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I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.
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It was a stupid political act ... today I deeply regret it but at the time I could not act otherwise. It was a political decision
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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.