Alex Tizon Quotes

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about race. To my mind, it was more about telling stories of people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision. Invisible people.

Alex Tizon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: October 30, 1959 - March 23, 2017

Topics

VisionPeopleMindYouSayRace

My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

FamilyMotherThankfulJoyMeWorld

I'm not a technophobe, but I'm pretty old fashioned.

Jennifer Egan

OldPretty

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

Maurice Saatchi

SimplicityGoalStartingPoint

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.

Michael Cunningham

PeopleMePlaySometimesSayTalk

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

Alphonso Jackson

PeopleYouRiseUnderstandClass

I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.

Tori Spelling

ThinkLookFindNiceSheTop

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Robert Browning

LifeStrengthSoulTryCountStuff

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

GodYourselfCaringYouOthersMay

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Christopher Walken

FunnyI AmPeopleThinkYouKnow

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

Connie Mack

NameManagerOnlyBeenHisJohn

If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling.

Coco Rocha

ModelingIrishDancingWere

My mother is my best friend.

Bryan Fogel

FriendMotherBestBest Friend

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