Oscar Hijuelos Quotes

I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

Oscar Hijuelos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1951 - October 12, 2013

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As a standup performer, I'm onstage, and it's important how the audience is looking at me. I'm looking at whether they're leaning forward or not, those types of things. You read an energy. And it's the same thing in a scene with other actors.

Jerrod Carmichael

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Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

Jennifer Aniston

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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Meister Eckhart

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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.

John Hickenlooper

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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Jeanne Moreau

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We have a wonderful film lined up early next year called 'Desi Magic.' It showcases me in a double role for the first time. This movie has offered me the most challenging role of my career so far. It's weird I chose to do my toughest film with my own production house.

Amisha Patel

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Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

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Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

Mike Colter

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I was a policeman for 18 years.

Dennis Farina

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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

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I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

Dennis Bergkamp

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The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Brian May

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