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Amal Clooney Quotes

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: lebanese
Birth: February 3, 1978

Topics

Experience Advice Human First Need

I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

Rain Hate Enthusiasm Election Bubble

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

Reading Someone Afraid Fiction Too

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

Jean-Luc Godard

People Rest Year You Go Three

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

Myself People Disrespect Doing See

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

People Believe I Believe Different

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Change Time People Long You Want

Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

Hope Courage Respect Death Mind

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

Love Speak Meet Ancestors Able Them

Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue.

Deborah Moggach

Trust Walk Together Adventure Fun

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

I Can Say Never Where Film Chosen

Being a role model is a privilege.

Role Model Privilege Being Role

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

War Book Complicated Want Write How

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