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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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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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.
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I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.
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But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly
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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.
