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 suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.
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Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
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The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.
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Der Mensch soll sich nicht genügen lassen an einem gedachten Gott; denn wenn der Gedanke vergeht, so vergeht auch der Gott.
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You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.
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I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
