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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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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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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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
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Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
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Somebody once said to me after I'd done "Deep Impact," "What is it like to play a Black president," and I said, "I didn't play a Black president. I played a president. I just happened to be Black. There's a difference.
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I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I've ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it.
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I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
