Jose Gonzalez Quotes
I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
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Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.
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I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.
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I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
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I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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Meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.
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I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.
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Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.
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I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
