Jose Saramago Quotes
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
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I'm in a relationship with myself. I think a lot of young girls should do that.
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Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
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Any neuroscience book is the death of me. I'm currently obsessed with 'The Moral Landscape' from Sam Harris. He's a controversial writer addressing science and religion while talking about the deep undertaking of your brain.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
