Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
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I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere.
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Beauty is a whore.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
