Jose Saramago Quotes
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.
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The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.
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The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.
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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.
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In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
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In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.
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Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
