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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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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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
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If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.
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For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
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I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.
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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.
