Jose Saramago Quotes
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
Jose Saramago
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
M.I.A.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J. M. Coetzee
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
Naomi Watts
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
Ira Glass
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
Xenophon
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
Ted Sarandos
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
Jacob deGrom
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
Caitlin Moran
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
Parker Palmer
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
Victor Spinetti
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A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.
Sadao Araki
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Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.
Steve Jobs
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'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.
Orson Scott Card
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Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
Jose Saramago
