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F. Sionil Jose Quotes

I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future People Me Writing Rich Young

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

Work Today Time Doctor Care Better

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

Love Character Story Enough Adapt

My life was a mystery even as I lived it.

Melissa Gilbert

Life My Life Mystery Lived Even

A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

John James Audubon

Work Me Drive Better Feel Go

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Love Children Me Drive Literature

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

Steven Spielberg

Good Time Amazing Me Laugh You

I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.

Ronald D. Moore

World Believe Process Reality You

I'm really into video games.

Video Games Games Video Really

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

Music People Me Think Way Out

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Vision Romantic Step People Dream

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

Start Entrepreneur Living Always

When I was younger, I didn't understand how a mother could put her son on a plane and just say, you know, 'Here you go, I'll see you later.' And she never followed, she never came.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Mother Son You Go Know Understand

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