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"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."
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"People read me but they don't subscribe."
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"You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't."
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"Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out."
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"I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it."
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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."
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"Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it."
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"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."
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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."
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"There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize."
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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."
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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
Beauty
"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
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"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
Thought
"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
Time
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
Work
"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."
Language
"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."
Nation
"My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own."
Literature
"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."
Work
"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
Intellectual
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