Juan Goytisolo Quotes

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

Juan Goytisolo

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• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Successful
  • First

• I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • World
  • Long
  • Rome

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Career
  • Man

• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Education

• There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Country
  • Girl

• All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Work
  • Love
  • Day

• My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Career
  • You
  • Vision

• You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • You
  • Always
  • Comfortable

• Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Everyday

• When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• I grew up in an all-white community.

  

  Gayle King
  • Up
  • Community

• Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Done
  • She
  • Experience

• I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Parents

• I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

  

  John Breaux
  • Done
  • Boat

• I'm unemployable in any other capacity.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Capacity
  • Other
  • Any

• The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Culture
  • Influence
  • Capacity