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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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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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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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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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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You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
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After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories.
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One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.
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It would have been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
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If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income, because they'd pay a higher wage if they didn't take it. That's a huge loss to the Treasury.
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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.
