Oscar Hijuelos Quotes
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
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I was brought up to reuse things.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
