Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.Rabih Alameddine
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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.
Vidal Sassoon -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
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.
Nathalie Sarraute -
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
Vikram Seth -
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien
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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.
Damien Chazelle -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong -
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.
Carl Hiaasen -
I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
Manny Montana -
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.
Ted Sarandos -
The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
Taylor Lautner -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon -
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Kamala Harris -
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler -
'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
Oren Peli -
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
Ian Frazier
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Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.
Niatia Jessica Kirkland -
I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
Don Lemon -
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
William Osler -
I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
Maeve Binchy -
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun -
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
Rabih Alameddine