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Hisham Matar Quotes

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.

Hisham Matar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

People Me Writing Singing You Place

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

John Warnock

Technology People Think Understanding

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Life Character Personality Kind Real

The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.

Toussaint Louverture

Myself Man Revolution Black Numbers

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Trai Byers

Patience God Empathy People Me Why

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

Tony Kushner

Art Trust Fun People You Artists

I wanted to be the best footballer in Belgian history. That was my goal. Not good. Not great. The best.

Romelu Lukaku

Good History Great Best Goal Wanted

The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch.

Roshni Nadar

Father Experience Building Company

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.

Craig Brown

Good Myself Day Results New Take

I fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.

Brendon Urie

Love Young Very Fell Sinatra

Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

April Winchell

Today Experience Fun Expensive Just

Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.

Arancha Gonzalez

Failure Women Business Men Know Aim

I really do remember everything. I see people I haven't seen in 20 years, and I can talk with them about what we talked about outside the high school.

Richard Linklater

School People High School Remember