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.Jose Saramago
Quotes to Explore
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid -
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.
Barbara Demick -
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores -
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin -
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe -
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
Baz Luhrmann
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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.
Tad Williams -
My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
Nadine Velazquez -
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud -
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.
Eckhart Tolle -
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Ramana Maharshi
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Me, I don't need money.
Marat Safin -
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.
Rahul Dravid -
I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
Omri Katz -
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden -
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth -
I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.
Rachel Bilson
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash -
I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.
Keith Stanfield -
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
Dario Argento -
My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.
David Twohy -
I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated as a male, disappearing from the world into a secret prison, and never facing a public trial.
Chelsea Manning -
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.
Jose Saramago