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've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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Sunday school don't make you cool forever.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.
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I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.
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I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
