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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Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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They were happy years, the four I spent in Glasgow, for I was young and ardent, and had not yet suffered the grave miscarriage of hope which is our human lot.
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What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.
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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
