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Hisham Matar Quotes

In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.

Hisham Matar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

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Father Men Me Book Speak Country

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.

Robert Lepage

Day People Every Day Now Class See

I just understand that life is a constant change and a constant evolution.

Matt Hardy

Life Change Life Is A Evolution Just

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

Ann Patchett

Time Long Go Write Through Fine

Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.

Jean Piaget

Children Game Rules Say Games Own

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Steve Garvey

Father Day Baseball Want Awareness

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Tommy Chong

Live Art New York World New Most

Before the surge started, frankly, after I left Iraq towards the end of 2006, I was worried that we were losing the war. But after the surge, I felt that we succeeded.

Tom Cotton

War Losing End Left Started Before

We looked at the customer segment that we want to go after, the Millennials, which everybody wants to go after. They are not buying linear TV.

Lowell McAdam

Customer Go Want Millennials Buying

There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

Dhanush

Hero You Hollywood Actor Lead See

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

Deepak Chopra

Death Think Self Behavior Long You

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Suzanne Vega

Always Up Making Stories Characters

My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.

Suresh Raina

Life Father Money Small Enjoy Look