Jose Saramago Quotes
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
