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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When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
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They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing?
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I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
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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.
