A Quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Quote Topics

Characters Desire Driven Incorruptible Justice Passionate Passionate Desire Rebellious

Quote Author

Tahar Ben Jelloun
French - Poet
Born: December 1, 1944

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Robert Breault

Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.

Albert Mohler

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.

Matthew Barney

I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person. Most of the impediments or solutions are state-driven, not federally driven.

Stacey Abrams

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

Ignatius of Antioch

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

Coco Chanel

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

Sofia Boutella

Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love.

Hermann Hesse

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

Meryl Streep

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

Tobin Heath

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Donald Woods Winnicott

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

Patty Duke

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

Robert Gregory Browne

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Harvey Dunn

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.