Assia Djebar Quotes
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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Mentors are like friendships.
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Wouldn't it be ironic that the very year the World Potato Congress is bringing all these international visitors, we take famous potatoes off our plates?
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
