Jose Saramago Quotes

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

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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.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Church
  • New
  • Nothing

• 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.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Fun
  • Paris

• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Destiny

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • House
  • Goals

• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Myself
  • Difficult
  • Fame

• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Believe
  • Movies
  • Million

• Work is making a living out of being bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Living
  • Bored

• Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Player
  • Games
  • Difference

• 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.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Know
  • Calm
  • Needed

• When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Work
  • Trying
  • School

• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

  

  Marquis De Custine
  • Natural
  • Grace
  • Used

• I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • People
  • Pieces
  • Glasses

• Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain

  

  O. Carl Simonton
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Healing

• I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

  

  Jose Saramago