F. Sionil Jose Quotes
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!' - he'll take offense.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
