Fatema Mernissi Quotes
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
