"Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries."

-- Jalal Talabani

#Country Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Absence Quotes

“I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.”
“And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.”
“That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.”
“Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.”
“It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.”
“Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.”
“Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts.”
“An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.”

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