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.

F. Sionil Jose

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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.'

Zooey Deschanel
- Up
- School
- Character
Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

Vernon Howard
- Life
- Friends
- Careless
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.

Xavier Dolan
- Art
- Artists
- Voices
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.

Fannie Flagg
- People
- Life
- Feelings
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

C. L. R. James
- Life
- Men
- Women
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson
- Life
- Black
- Running