Rabih Alameddine Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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(While smiling, and jokingly) You haven't come to see me for three weeks. I wondered whether you had become disgusted with us war criminals - particularly me, the so-called archcriminal of them all.
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I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
