F. Sionil Jose Quotes

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

F. Sionil Jose

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

Jerry Saltz

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Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity. Even in times of real danger, political authorities have to prove the case that abridgments of rights are justified.

Michael Ignatieff

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For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

Jean Dujardin

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Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Amanda Seyfried

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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Stendhal

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My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

Sridevi

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If you only see 'No Country for Old Men' and 'Sicario,' you've seen two great, totally separate Josh Brolin performances.

Rob Liefeld

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I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

Deontay Wilder

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For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker.

Denise Dresser

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I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

Dean Winters

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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

Bob Schaffer

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I think that being a conscious parent opens your eyes to the fact that any adult relationships that you have, whenever children are present on a daily basis, that they're modeling how they get along with people by what they see how you get along.

Peter Krause

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