Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.
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You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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You must have heard that last autumn I almost got married, but I am glad I realized in time that it had been an illusion, all those beautiful things. Although I have always lived for art, I am also attracted to the beautiful in life and so I sometimes do things that seem strange for me.
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Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
