"When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes."

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Laila Lalami

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“Don't listen to what people tell you, there are always doubters. Work hard, believe in yourself, and believe in your ability and just work hard.”

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“As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.”
“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”
“I've never been a fan of euphemism.”
“Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.”
“'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.”
“I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.”

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