Hanan Ashrawi Quotes

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song into something else!

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

He’s playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. Don’t blame me because he’s a better manipulator than I am — I haven’t been around long enough to learn all his tricks.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

A language is a map of our failures

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.