Rabih Alameddine Quotes
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces?
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To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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When I was a kid, I watched Hugo Sanchez videos. The backflip I sometimes do when I score is actually an homage to him.
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...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
