Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Youth is beautiful.
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Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
