Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.Tahar Ben Jelloun
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
Garry Shandling -
I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
Venus Williams -
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
Oscar Isaac -
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson -
I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
Wadada Leo Smith -
It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
Sam Hunt -
The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
Damien Hirst -
I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
Jack Kirby -
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt
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I can always go back to education.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
Dana Stabenow -
I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
Ed Harris -
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
Wendelin Van Draanen -
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood
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Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'
Maya Angelou -
I've sung in the shower for years.
Chris Pine -
'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Don't marry the first person that proposes to you!
Lynda Carter -
I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
Karan Singh Grover -
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
Tahar Ben Jelloun