"I find it very difficult not to write in any sort of Sudanese style. With Sudanese music, there are very specific things that happen with the syncopation of the drums, melodies and stuff. And whenever I write, that's always the first thing that comes out, because I grew up listening to it. It's a part of me, so I try to bring that out in the music. I think that you have to be honest with what you do, and that's the most honest thing that I can do, is to write that way."

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Ahmed Gallab

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes

“If the Metro general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, says those extra hours for maintenance are necessary to help fix the system and make it safer, then that gets top priority.”
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
“All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.”
“I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.”
“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”
“Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.”

Source : Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside
“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.”

Source : "At Dawn We Slept". Book by Donald M Goldstein, Gordon Prange, and Katherine V. Dillon, 1981.
“From every human being there rises a light.”

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