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Hisham Matar Quotes

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Father Home Political March His

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Confidence Fun Amazing Have Fun You

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Art Cats Thoughts You Back Feelings

I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.

Love Me Looking Drummer Watching

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

Steven Cojocaru

Good Bad Throwback She Star Her

For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

Life Time Space Someone Long Never

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Tommy Lee Jones

Kindness Politeness Overrated

Retiring is getting ready to die.

Die Ready Getting Retiring

I like the taste of grass-fed meat. It is chewier, I'll own that... The Argentines make excellent beef that's grass-fed. They've learned how to age it, and they've gotten good at it.

Good Age Meat Taste Own Excellent

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

Attention Never Worthy Quite Subject

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Work Decide Own Pace Writer Every

The planet is alive, and it's a woman.

Woman Alive Planet

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

Mistake Place Said Would Everybody

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