Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.
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I always breathe cricket.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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I've been struggling so long with my career that I haven't been in a position to invite a woman into my life. It would have been like, 'Hey, come live with me and my two roommates, and let's make ramen noodles tonight.'
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
