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.
Karan Johar -
I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
Tara Strong -
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.
Jack Nance -
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.
Madeleine Stowe -
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.
Lajos Kossuth -
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.
Magda Apanowicz
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
Sally Pearson -
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
E. P. Thompson -
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.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
Samuel Larsen -
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.
Orlando Bloom
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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.
R. A. Salvatore -
It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
Natalie Dormer -
In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
Joanne Rowling -
I like the effect drink has on me.
Oliver Reed -
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
Kate Christensen -
Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
E. L. James
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul -
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Laura Bush -
I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
Jimmy Carter -
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
Kate Winslet -
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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