Juan Goytisolo Quotes
In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
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From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In its case it lay compactly, Folded into nearly nothing;But he opened out the hinges, Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges, Till it looked all squares and oblongs, Like a complicated figure In the Second Book of Euclid.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
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I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
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Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
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The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.
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For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.
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In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
