Immaculee Ilibagiza Quotes
I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Time stays, we go.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.
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By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
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In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
