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Jose Saramago Quotes

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: portuguese
Birth: November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010

Topics

Life Best Me Luck My Life Stop

I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'

John Cameron Mitchell

Culture People Mind Gay Way Up

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

Feel Rock Band Solo Different

It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.

People Me Name Easy Wrong Sometimes

I think people expect me to dress a bit like Veronica from 'Shameless,' in vest tops and denim skirts.

Dress People Me Think Expect Skirts

As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

Discrimination Person Group Against

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

Mistake Game You Go Nervous Make

What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.

Music Simple People Me Wake Up Up

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

Smile Mother Happy People Me Go

I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.

Anne Graham Lotz

Life God Purpose Believe Plan Race

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Children Food Medical War World

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

Allison Pearson

Mother Home Son New York Baby Doing

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

Art Never Always Abstract Expression

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