Jose Saramago Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Women are sacred.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I'm not a big planner when I travel; I just feel it out.
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.
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The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
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I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
