Laila Lalami Quotes
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
