"By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale."

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Source : "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

Rabih Alameddine

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“I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.”

Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”
“I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.”
“We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.”

Source : "Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built 'Toy Story 3'" by Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. May 24, 2010.
“Acting is my passion and Chelsea FC is my hobby.”
“My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.”
“Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.”
“One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.”

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