Jorge M. Perez Quotes
I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I work hard and support myself.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
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We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
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The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
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The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.
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When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.
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I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.
