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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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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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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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.
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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
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I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.
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My mom wouldn't let me dye my hair for the longest time.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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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.
