Ammiel Alcalay Quotes & Sayings

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day. — Tony Benn

Something on his, and he held up a hand to indicate — Elizabeth Strout

When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big. — Jonas Carpignano

When I wish to recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum ....A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below, - such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. — Henry David Thoreau

I have to fit in. Wherever they want to use me, that's fine. — LaDainian Tomlinson

There is in Ammiel Alcalay's work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different. — Etel Adnan

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before. — Carly Fiorina

It was just too easy to say that adults did not like stories that were simple, and perhaps that was wrong. Perhaps that was what adults really wanted, searched for and rarely found: a simple story in which good triumphs against cynicism and dispair. That was what she wanted, but she was aware of the fact that one did not publicise the fact too widely, certainly not in sophisticated circles. Such circles wanted complexity, dysfunction and irony: there was no room for joy, celebration or pathos. But where was the FUN in that? — Alexander McCall Smith