Miguel Syjuco Quotes
Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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Human beings are curious by nature.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
