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Jose Saramago Quotes

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Control Military Gateway Middle East

I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family.

Life Family Sea Time Theatre Think

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

Love Hate I Am Equality Liberty Am

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

Success Identity Me Think Generation

Traditionally, I like to watch my plays from the very back.

Back Watch Like Very Plays

I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode.

Job Feel Attention Pay Attention Pay

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

Work Thought Joke Used Would Like

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

Chris Bohjalian

Day Words Opinion Reality End You

When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.

Christopher Guest

Restaurant Someone Talking You Would

Magic is at the core of myths.

Magic Core Myths

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Education Higher Education Will More

We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite show. And I make a healthy dinner and we sit down and it's our date. I love it.

Love Together Dinner Plan Down Sit

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

William S. Burroughs

Hate Conformity Who How Dedicated

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