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.
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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?
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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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.
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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?
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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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.
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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.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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I can always go back to education.
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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.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.
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So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.
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I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.
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I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.
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I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
