Jose Saramago Quotes
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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Me, I don't need money.
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
