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Jose Antonio Vargas Quotes

Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: filipino
Birth: February 3, 1981

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Me You Country Important Focused

Video game fans are like nothing else. You can do so many movies or so many TV things, but video games is where there is just everyone.

Video Games Game You Movies Nothing

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Drinkwater

Work Poetry Energy Long Drama Whole

We all must make hatemongers unwelcome in our towns and communities. And we must stand by the heroes in this struggle, the police and county prosecutors who stand up to the extremists.

Struggle Police Stand Up Stand Up

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Discovery Years Normal Cancer Genes

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

Discipline Day Writing Chance Look

My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Good Father Child Parents Me Others

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Change Time I Am People Moving

I am never going to give music up.

Music I Am Never Up Going Give

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Parents People Look Mentor Never Up

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Annabelle Selldorf

Art Looking Eye You Want Inspired

Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called 'Hark! the Lark.'

Art Picture Now Thirty Oil Years

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

Life Eyes See Through Own Our

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