Nilo Cruz Quotes

I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table work or when I'm talking to a dramaturg about, you know, the culture, but also what I'm trying to do as a writer in this particular play. You know, you have to protect yourself too.

Nilo Cruz

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• Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Interesting
  • College
  • Brain

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Space
  • Korean

• Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Way
  • Once
  • Dive

• In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Path
  • Temptation

• I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Way
  • Day
  • Actor

• I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Why
  • Think

• I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Family
  • Know
  • Insurance

• You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Important
  • Women
  • Country

• 'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hurt

• I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Hero
  • Intelligent

• I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

  

  Jason Reitman

• I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • People

• I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Great
  • Music
  • Passion

• Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Culture
  • Architecture
  • Civilization

• NYU was my comfort zone.

  

  Amy Heckerling

• When I called upon Dr. Johnson next morning, I found him highly satisfied with his colloquial prowess the preceding evening. 'Well, (said he,) we had good talk.' BOSWELL: 'Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.'

  

  James Boswell
  • Good
  • Morning

• The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Men
  • Power
  • Might

• I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table work or when I'm talking to a dramaturg about, you know, the culture, but also what I'm trying to do as a writer in this particular play. You know, you have to protect yourself too.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Culture
  • Writer
  • Protect