F. Sionil Jose Quotes
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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There's always room for an operator like Airbnb, but it's quite a different thing to my serviced apartments. Airbnb is a different market - it has nothing to do with me.
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The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
