Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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It's an honor, when you've been hustling in the business for years, years and years, it doesn't matter when it comes - you're just glad it came.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.
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People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.
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Insults are the business of the court.
