Miguel Syjuco Quotes

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.

Miguel Syjuco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Joe Perry

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The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

John Hickenlooper

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My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.

Andy Serkis

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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

John Sergeant Wise

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I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

Amanda Fuller

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I don't talk about my boyfriend because it's boring.

Suki Waterhouse

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I want to get back and do the things that I loved to do, which were my triples. And I know I could do them.

Tonya Harding

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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

Robin Marantz Henig

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By the time I got to WWE, I had a lot more confidence and willingness to speak up.

Mick Foley

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I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

Lucy Powell

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