"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."

-- Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Men Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes

“Well having a partner in crime helps a lot! But honestly it doesn't take much to get me psyched. The stage is where I'm most at home, and that has been the case since I was very young. It's where I feel most myself and at ease.”
“If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.”
“I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.”
“I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started”
“Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.”
“Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.”
“Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.”
“I've got my finger in a lot of pies.”

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