Alaa Al Aswany Quotes
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy in nearly circular orbits. They vary a little bit from circular, but they're predominantly circular.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
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I'm sick of hearing white liberals claim that if you call them out for their failed liberal programs, you're a racist. It makes my blood boil - which is part of why I am running.
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Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
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I've always been interested in this idea of looking at these monster stories and trying to really understand the mechanics underneath. That's very much true of this movie I made, 'All Good Things,' as well as 'Catfish,' which I produced.
Andrew Jarecki -
If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.
