Miguel Syjuco Quotes

I studied in New York. I fell in love with an Australian-born, half-Filipina girl. So we moved to Australia when she went to her university and I moved with her. We moved to Montreal because she was going to take her year abroad, and I wanted to see if I could keep on writing there. It's really hard to make it as a writer in the Philippines.

Miguel Syjuco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: November 17, 1976

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In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Jerry Hunt

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Our skin is the largest organ and one of the ways we eliminate waste.

Anna Kaiser

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I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

Michael C. Hall

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Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

John Shadegg

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Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Tommy Shaw

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The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

Tom Scholz

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I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

Tom Scholz

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I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.

Robert Wilson

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

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There's a huge migration of eyeballs from television screens to cellphones, tablets, and laptops. More and more people prefer to watch their favorite shows at a time and a place of their own choosing. Appointment TV only happens when you are waiting for the doctor.

Jorge Ramos

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I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

Douglas Coupland

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With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Dee Hock

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