F. Sionil Jose Quotes

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

IntegrityBreakfastYouImportant

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

John Burns

MorningMeMoralsHandsYouManners

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

KnowledgeIgnoranceAngerArgument

All the media have their own award presentations.

Robert Preston

MediaAwardOwn

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.

Jean Dujardin

PotentialThoughtDoingYouUnique

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Steven Chu

RememberGeometryFirstExciting

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Siri Hustvedt

ParisFirstReviewPoemPublished

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

SmileBehaviorYouBadPlayHuman

A guy should always pursue the girl.

Roop Durgapal

GirlAlwaysPursueGuyShould

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Ruth Negga

FightPeopleSmallGetOnlyPercent

My first job in acting was in a Scott Baio movie called 'I Love N.Y.' My role was Italian Girl. I sent my 8x10 to a casting agent in the booklet, 'The Ross Report,' which is where all the agents were listed before that little thing called the Internet. I read for this tiny part. I couldn't have been more excited to get it.

Liz Tuccillo

LoveGirlJobInternetActingFirst

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Josef Albers

ColorsGroundOwnInfluencesHue

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

Dinesh D'Souza

LovedAmericaPlacePlanetMost

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