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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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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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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I support the French team - I go to all their matches - but I don't want to use sport for politics. That's not good for sport or for politics.
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I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.
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I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
