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Hisham Matar Quotes

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

Hope Time Long You Long Time Living

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

Law Will Years Everything Obsolete

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

People Dinner Talking You Table

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

Remember You Never Successful Till

I think sometimes you need a little more explanation than the characters that you're allowed on Twitter.

Think You Sometimes More Need Than

To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster.

Short Fish You Knife Will Need

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

Me Think You Nothing Always Going

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

Work Challenge Always Voices Accent

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Me Paris Still Appetite Blondes

As a gold-card-carrying member of the nerd herd, I'm usually in the artsy, fringy, PBS-y kind of shows that change maybe five people's lives forever while leaving everyone else wondering if they can still make the ticket lottery at 'Wicked.'

Donna Lynne Champlin

Change People Kind Leaving Lottery

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

Wealth Create Know Investment Happen

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

Age Character Book Name Late Lead

I'm not a very open person.

Person Open Very

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