Rabih Alameddine Quotes
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
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The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
