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“I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.”
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“Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“it's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE......”
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“Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.”
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“Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.”
Source : "The Towers of Trebizond". Book by Rose Macaulay, 1956.
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“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.”
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“The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.”
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“I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.”
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“I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.”
