Sayed Kashua Quotes

It sometimes seems that the only plan the Israeli government has for the Palestinians is for them to sit quietly while Israel does whatever takes its fancy, equipped with its army, with laws it promulgated, and with courts it established.

Sayed Kashua

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GovernmentArmyPlanSometimesSit

When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.

Jess Glynne

PeopleMeCoolWeirdTellBig

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

Joel Grey

FatherMeStudyPianoInterestHad

America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world.

Matthew Stewart

WorldAmericaSameMovementSaw

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

Jeff MacNelly

BestCreativeProcessDeadlineThing

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

Jeffrey Tambor

ProblemsManagerWonderfulSays

I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn't know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because it was the hardest one to get into. It's ridiculous when I think about it now, but it worked out OK.

Steve Mollenkopf

ThinkEngineeringKnowRidiculous

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

Tommy Wiseau

GoodBetterYouActingKnowLike

I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

Roz Chast

WorkFunnyChildhoodParentsSorry

To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly to the young, who should take to it as soon as they can handle knife and fork; this is a fine way for them to begin taking pride in themselves and their abilities.

Julia Child

PrideFishYoungKnifeWayDining

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

Jonathan Franzen

FunnyThinkBeingFarI ThinkYeah

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

ManThoughtsFaceInterestingMouth

The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.

Pico Iyer

TimeFirst TimeNeverFirstStepping

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