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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006

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Change Woman Egypt Way Difficult

Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.

Light Year Television Earth Weak

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

John Agyekum Kufuor

People Country Now Poor Poor People

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

Andrew Rannells

Losing People Theatre Trying You TV

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

Music Growing Up Growing Kind Up

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

Work People Research Enjoy Kind

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

Nature Doctor Think Thought You Out

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

Show Just TV Show TV Movie Version

It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.' The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious now than they used to be, and that's showing up in all phases of entertainment.

Light Writing Showing Up Bad Movies

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

Man Rest Worth Mankind Homage Who

Sometimes you leave the house for school, and you realize you're wearing the same thing as your toddler, which is embarrassing! I try to avoid it at all costs.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

School You House Sometimes Try Same

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

Think Bed Write Would Kids Wanted

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Brendon Burchard

Learning Day World You Stop Top

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