Juan Goytisolo Quotes
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.
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If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.
Nastassja Kinski -
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.
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I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
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I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.
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Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
