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Ismail Kadare Quotes

Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: albanian
Birth: January 28, 1936

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People City Name Better Write Two

I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.

Saying More Civil Rights Rights Than

I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.

Time Me Year Sharing Single Double

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

Poetry Theatre Attention Like Itself

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Roger Craig Smith

College Doing Act Started Would Lot

What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.

Work Think Body Young Your Body

Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.

Men Remember Young Discussion How

I have this little, tiny Dusty Rhodes figure they make in Japan that people always give me in my bag. I set it next to the title and took a picture of it in my bag. That was my big goal in the industry. I wasn't able to achieve that in his lifetime, but he always believed.

People Me Picture Bag Goal Achieve

Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.

Good Time Job Effort Think Enough

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

Brigitte Bardot

Myself Only Wanted

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

Today I Am Me Golf Person Here

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.

Life My Life Kind Watergate Then

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

Fun People Mind Amazing Ideas Song

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