F. Sionil Jose Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.
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Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
