Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

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• The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.

  

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• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

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• I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

  

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• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

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• I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

  

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• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

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• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  

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• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

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• The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

  

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• You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

  

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• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

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• I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.

  

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• You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

  

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• It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

  

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• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

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• After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

  

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• I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

  

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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  

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• Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

  

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• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

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• Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

  

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• I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Language
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  • Poems