Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 1, 1944

Topics

WorkHopePeopleCreateInvestment

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

NatureSleepPersonNervousParanoid

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

John le Carre

BookSeeingLikeYourMovieHaving

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

Amy Tan

PathPeopleThinkRightRight Path

Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

Steve Erickson

BestCoolCameraYouMoreAlways

My first series regular was on a TV show called 'Starved,' which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced.

Sterling K. Brown

DayJobGoFirstNextYears

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

Stan Freberg

MusicMyselfWordsPeopleAmerica

I was a class clown. I realized early on feeling very comfortable in front of people.

Rocky Carroll

PeopleEarlyFeelingClassClown

There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.

Rodney Atkins

MotherTogetherMeMomBookBack

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

Judy Parfitt

LifeFaithPeopleHelpSomething

I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I responded to that character. That was one of my first big jobs, so I think maybe I lucked out, and casting thought that I was a good match for it. Since then, as I've gotten older, I'm a much more happy, joyful, almost carefree person.

Julia Stiles

GoodCharacterHateHappyThinkYou

It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

Judith Tarr

SadWomanWritingFantasyUnited

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

Bob Feller

TimeAmericanCountryNeedServe

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