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I want to say that I can be Moroccan and speak about someone without speaking about his nationality. Because, you know, I have the feeling that when you come from Morocco, when you come from Afghanistan, when you come from Africa, Occidental people always wait for you to write a novel about identity.

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When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child – discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

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My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character’s mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well – the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it’s hard to tell who came up with the line.

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May 5, 2024

My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character’s mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well – the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it’s hard to tell who came up with the line.

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May 5, 2024

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child – discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

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