F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

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• Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Name

• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Experience
  • You
  • Paint

• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Gun

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Art
  • Acting

• The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Animal
  • Strange
  • Very

• Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Science
  • Energy
  • Problems

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Language

• Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Find

• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Silence
  • Chaos
  • Meaning

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Black
  • Painting

• I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Alone

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I was possessed by London.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • London
  • Possessed

• You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • Up
  • Summer
  • Vegas

• Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • English
  • Irish

• I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
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• Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Technology
  • Religion
  • Values