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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

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We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

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If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.

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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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