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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My hair is naturally blond and thin, so I like to give it some texture. Sexy, dirty bedhead is good for blonds.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
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True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?
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Our lives are interesting.
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Where shall we express our hopes and fears? If we post our concerns on Facebook, we may forget to cast our cares on the Lord, the one who sustains us in our sorrows.
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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.
