Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
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I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.
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Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.
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I try to improve upon myself every day, and I try to make sure that I spend more time not doing things that I think I need to be doing.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
