Dinaw Mengestu Quotes

When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

Dinaw Mengestu

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In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.

Meghan Daum

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Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Max von Sydow

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I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.

Tony Hale

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We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

Rupert Murdoch

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I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

Lizzy Caplan

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The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

Jason Bateman

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You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Chesley Sullenberger

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Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

Anthony Doerr

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I think that it's important to have good people around you, like my friends.

Austin Mahone

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There's a lot of people in this world, and it's important to learn about them.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

PeopleWorldLearnImportantAbout

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

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