Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
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I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.
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I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
