Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
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I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
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I know this is a physical game. But the mental part of it is so important. It's important for me and important for the team.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
