"I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory."

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Source : "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

Mahmoud Darwish

#Memories Quotes #Self Quotes #Collectives Quotes

“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”
“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
“I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.”
“I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.”
“Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.”

Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.”
“Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an author doesn't handle it right, it falls flat or seems overdone. It is a challenge getting it "just right".”
“I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.”

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