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Hisham Matar Quotes

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

History Writing Language You Just

I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

Time Me Congress Veterans First

I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

Childhood Me Opportunities Enough

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Habit Start Thinking Thoughtful Stop

It's only by coincidence I started working with my father - all because of King Abdullah's decision not to grant my promotion. God bless his soul, he did me a favor.

Mohammad bin Salman

Father God Decision Soul King Me

I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.

Girl Jewish Side West Manhattan

One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people's dreams.

Dreams People Someone Write Normal

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Music People Mind Song Better Feel

If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it usually has to do with a voice quality that also matches very well with the animation.

Jonathan Freeman

Quality Voice Think You Look Find

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

Beautiful Past Think Someone You

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).

Douglas Hofstadter

New York America New Reason Unlucky

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Culture People Black Long Alive

I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

Doing Remember You Keep Get Botox

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