Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Quotes to Explore
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All religions have been made by men.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
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We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.
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Human nature doesn't really change a lot. We haven't changed that much and politics haven't changed that much. It's still the same things we're debating today that we did 300 years ago, which is a little bit scary when you think about it.
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It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.
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I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
