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“I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.”
“I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.”
“Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.”
“Now lemme get this straight," she said in a throaty, nasal voice. "You put the lime in the cocanut and drink 'em both up--whoa, long faces. What am I interrupting?”
“Itâ€™s not information overload. Itâ€™s filter failure.”
“I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.”
“If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it . . . with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.”

Source : "Diana Abu-Jaber: The Only Response to Silencing is to Keep Speaking". Interview with Andrea Shalal-Esa, www.aljadid.com. 2002.

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