Hisham Matar Quotes

When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.

Hisham Matar

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SchoolParentsMeAmericanBackOld

I want to get in there and jump in the stands and dive for every loose ball.

Joel Embiid

JumpWantDiveBallGetLoose

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

Jens Lekman

PeopleListeningAlwaysBeenStories

There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly.

Anna Netrebko

GoodMusicGreatListeningOpinion

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

John Podhoretz

HistoryRichRobotsMovies

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

Shura

PersonWayMoreOutStandingCrowd

I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.

Michael Trucco

ManI AmWeekendWarriorPoorWhere

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

Michael Shannon

MyselfHelpPlayPrettyGet

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Molly Quinn

YourselfYouBackMorePretending

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

Moby

WorkMusicStartThinkGoWay

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.

Lloyd Dorfman

TodayFinanceWorldBrandGoKnow

I couldn't see a future of doing anything other than performing. I didn't like school if I'm being honest. I would have settled for performing in any capacity.

Cheryl Cole

FutureSchoolDoingSeeAnything

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available.

Bob Parsons

ChildParentsBabyNameWillAware

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