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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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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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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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
