Jose Saramago Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
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...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
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Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder, die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält.
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…workmen who wanted (a) the white man out…,(c) sinecures
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He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.
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Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I don't think it's very easy to make friends with musicians. We're all a bit paranoid. It soon becomes very heavy.
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When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
