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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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
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I was actually going to law school in 1972.
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I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.
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In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
