F. Sionil Jose Quotes
Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
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The world is always in movement.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.
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Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.
