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Hisham Matar Quotes

Being my father's son is a kind of privilege.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Father Son Kind Privilege Being

It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.

Work Hard Work Place Hard Always Us

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

Live Myself Me World Distance Now

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

Jeffrey Donovan

Teacher Focus School I Am College

Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'

Family Children Myself Mind Me Easy

Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.

Together Ideas Start Get Together

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

People Party More Never Our

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

Work Age Man Perfect Back Go

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.

I Am Basketball Think Party Kind He

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

Christopher Buckley

Funny Mother Think Ridiculous DNA

When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, 'Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.'

Walk People Reality You Person Meet

Engineering stimulates the mind.

Bruce Dickinson

Mind Engineering Stimulates

My talent as a footballer was medium. But I had heart, a will to win, to work to overcome my limitations.

Work Heart Talent Win Will Overcome

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