F. Sionil Jose Quotes

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: filipino
  • Birth: December 3, 1924

Topics

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A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Sia

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One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Robert Duvall

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As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness.

Tom Brokaw

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I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Michele Bachmann

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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Minna Antrim

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I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

Judy Sheindlin

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No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Denis Leary

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I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.

Constance Zimmer

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I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

Brooke Shields

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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

Annalee Newitz

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It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

Alfred Einstein

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I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.

Priyanka Chopra

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