Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.
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So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
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God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
