F. Sionil Jose Quotes
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I definitely have family on the brain.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
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Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
