Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
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The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
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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 am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
