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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There was never any butter in our home. Just margarine. My parents acted like butter was lethal. I don't think I ever saw either one have a piece of butter. I would go over to friends' houses and down sticks of butter.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.
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These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
