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"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."
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"I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look."
"When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble."
"We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it."
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
"There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it."
"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."
"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."
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"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."
"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."
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"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
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