Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
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Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
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'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
