Carlos Bulosan (Carlos Sampayan Bulosan) Quotes
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
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I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.
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When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.
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Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
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I don't really do stand-up.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want to be able to be perceived as an artist as opposed to 'a black actor': that's the joy.
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What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.
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Emily, I saw you last night by the riverI dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the waterFrowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under foreverIn a mud cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror.
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Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.
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The human heart is bigger than the world.
