Abdellah Quotes

#1. The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

Darren Shan

#2. I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.

Abdellah Taia

#3. Become what you are.

Pindar

#4. Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...

Jonni Gray

#5. It's all about the special effects.

Chris Kirkpatrick

#6. Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

Ismail Kadare

#8. It's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

Craig L. Rice

#9. Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.

Abdellah Taia

#10. So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

Abdellah Taia

#11. Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.

Abdellah Taia

#12. As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

Ira Sachs

#13. I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.

Francis Fukuyama

#14. NO ONE IS CAPABLE OF FREEING ONESELF FROM SOCIETY.

Abdellah Taia

#15. People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

Abdellah Taia