Rabih Alameddine Quotes
In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
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No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.
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His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.
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I still want to do features, but on my own terms.
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The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.
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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
