Rabih Alameddine Quotes
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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It took him 45 minutes to say his prayers in the morning. He mentioned everyone by name and his concerns with them. He had to schedule time to pray because he didn't feel it appropriate to just mention them as a group.
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I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
