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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Peace Media Interviews Accepted

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

Best School Literature Acting Always

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

Work People Color Black Think True

My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.

Art Challenge Day Job Fun Artist

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Love Myself Really I Love Vicious

I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. I had been recommended by the editors of 'The New York Review of Books,' where I'd worked as an editorial assistant.

New York Spring Someone Help New

It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavors when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients.

Rocco DiSpirito

Best Creating Important Possible

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.

Character Eyes Culture Government

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

Good Woman Care Looks She Line

I just really like being with my sister.

Sister Being Just Like Really

Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.

Life Get Terrible Unfortunately

School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals.

Strength Passion Courage Day School

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'

Yourself You Privacy Go Know Out

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