Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
